Brian McnairStriptease Culture
Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
Brian McNair is Reader in Film and Media Studies at the University of Stirling, and a member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. His books include Mediated Sex (1996), The Sociology of Journalism (1998) and Journalism and Democracy (Routledge, 2000).
List of figures. Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. Sex Matters 2. From Wilde
to Wild: the End of Patriarch, Or Is It All Just History Repeating Part I
Cultural Sexualisation: from Pornosphere to Public Sphere 3. The Amazing
Expanding Pornosphere 4. Porno-chic, or the Pornographication of the
Mainstream 5. Striptease Culture: the Sexualisation of the Public Sphere
Part II Sexual Representation 6. Women, Know Your Limits! 7. The
Mainstreaming of Gayness 8. Men Behaving Sadly: the Crisis of Masculinity?
Part III The Aesthetics of Sexual Transgression 9. Men, Sex and
Transgression 10. Queer Culture 11. Bad Girls: Sexual Transgression as
Feminist Strategy 12. Conclusions. Bibliography