Description
In this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether writing on romantic fiction or hardcore pornography, on robots or sex goddesses, Radclyffe Hall or the Marquis de Sade, she finds the perversions and deviances. Illustrated.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Case histories, Portraits, Heroines, Sexual politics, Notes, Index
