Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Sexscapes of Pleasure. Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy

Presentazione del volume di Elena Zambelli, Lancaster University

Introduce Elisa Bignante
Discutono con l’autrice Chiara Bertone e Paola Minoia

Organizzato da Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società – corso di studio in Area and Global Studies for International Cooperation

10 maggio 2023 ore 14.00
Torino, CLE, Aula A2

Focusing on Italy, this book discusses how women negotiate sexuality and social status in a Western sexscape constituted by multifaceted articulations of women’s sexuality, commodities and modernity. Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women’s processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.