Dymock, Alex. 2013. Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the 'Fifty Shades Effect'. Sexualities, 16(8), pp. 880-895. ISSN 1363-4607 [Article]

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This article offers a critical reading of the Fifty Shades phenomenon by situating the novels as works of transgressive erotic fiction that stimulate circuits of female consumption and the production of sexual identity as commodity. It submits a novel contribution to current scholarship on the mechanisms of sexual transgression by acknowledging its neutral or even reactive qualities, and by laying bare its relationship with disciplinary regimes of social power. It demonstrates that, rather than a politically progressive utopian strategy that might delimit the parameters of sexual desire, transgression now primarily functions as a mechanism through which capitalism is reinforced and the institutions of heteronormativity maintained.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460713508884
Keywords:	commodity; consumption; sexuality; transgression; women
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Law
Dates:	Date Event 8 December 2013 Published Online December 2013 Published
Item ID:	27785
Date Deposited:	19 Feb 2020 10:40
Last Modified:	19 Feb 2020 10:40
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27785

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