Reconceptualizing bodies and pleasure: considerations by and for sex-positive service workers

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dc.contributor.authorHenderson, Charlotte
dc.contributor.supervisorMoss, Pamela
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-27T14:46:12Z
dc.date.available2016-04-27T14:46:12Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-04-27
dc.degree.departmentProgram: Studies in Policy and Practiceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractHuman sexuality has been overrun with narratives that limit the possibilities of pleasure. Sex-positive workers have the potential to challenge the ways in which these limitations become embodied. In this research I explore narratives of sex education and youth, pleasure as prevention, and the medicalization of sexuality. I engage in collective biography as a way to identify how these narratives shape the way bodies and pleasure get taken up in specific places. Drawing from poststructural feminist theory I propose three ways of reconceptualizing bodies and pleasure as emergent sites of change and potential. Through an analysis of the experiences of sex-positive service workers in Canada, I consider what else, and for whom, bodies, pleasure, and sex education might look like.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0680 0733 0573en_US
dc.description.proquestemailyorkchender@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7202
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectcollective biographyen_US
dc.subjectsex-positiveen_US
dc.subjectsexualityen_US
dc.subjectpoststructuralisten_US
dc.subjectstoriesen_US
dc.subjectsex-positive service workersen_US
dc.subjectpleasureen_US
dc.subjectbodiesen_US
dc.subjectrisken_US
dc.subjectsex educationen_US
dc.subjectmedicalization of sexualityen_US
dc.subjectpreventionen_US
dc.subjectbronwyn daviesen_US
dc.subjectpossibilityen_US
dc.subjectlimit experienceen_US
dc.subjectbody without organsen_US
dc.titleReconceptualizing bodies and pleasure: considerations by and for sex-positive service workersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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