Table of Contents

Series Editors’ Introduction
Introduction
1. Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies
2. Bad Girls Happen to Things
3. Magnification and the Unknown
4. RubberDoll: Success and the Significance of Sexual Otherness
5. Commodification of Cult and ‘Alterative’ Femininities
6. The Shadows of Safe Femininity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled ‘bad,’ sluts or dirty, including neo-burlesque, sex-positive, queer performance art and explicit entertainment.

About the Author

Dr Gemma Commane is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the Birmingham School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK. She is active in research in the fields of media and cultural studies, and gender and sexuality.

Reviews

This book makes a bold intervention into debates on femininity, pleasure, agency, and sexualisation. Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies is a singular achievement: scholarly, sophisticated and provocative, it establishes Gemma Commane as one of the most exciting voices in feminist cultural studies today.
*Dr Debra Ferreday, Director, Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK.*