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Sensational Flesh sexual cultures General Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R. Delany Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Phillip Brian Harper In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies Mandy Merck Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America José Quiroga Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel Greg Forter Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan Black Gay Man: Essays Robert Reid Pharr Foreword by Samuel R. Delany Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion Edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg The Explanation for Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity Paul Morrison The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism Edited by Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan IV Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces Juana María Rodríguez Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture Frances Négron-Muntaner Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era Marlon Ross In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives Judith Halberstam Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality in the U.S. Dwight A. McBride God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence Michael Cobb Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual Robert Reid-Pharr The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory Lázaro Lima Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America Dana Luciano Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism Scott Herring Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination Darieck Scott Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries Karen Tongson Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading Martin Joseph Ponce Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Michael Cobb Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias Eng-Beng Lim Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law Isaac West The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture Vincent Woodard, Edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings Juana María Rodríguez Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism Amber Jamilla Musser Sensational Flesh Race, Power, and Masochism Amber Jamilla Musser a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London new york university press New York and London www.nyupress.org © 2014 by New York University All rights reserved References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Musser, Amber Jamilla. Sensational flesh : race, power, and masochism / Amber Jamilla Musser. pages cm. — (Sexual cultures) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4798-9181-8 (cl : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4798-3249-1 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Sadomasochism 2. Sexual dominance and submission. 3. Queer theory. 4. Race. I. Title. HQ79.M877 2014 306.77’5—dc23 2013049749 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Also available as an ebook A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org. For my parents, who bought me my first leather skirt This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: Theory, Flesh, Practice 1 2 Specters of Domination: Patriarchy, Colonialism, and Masochism 31 3 Objectification, Complicity, and Coldness: The Story of O’s Narratives of Femininity and Precarity 58 4 Time, Race, and Biology: Fanon, Freud, and the Labors of Race 88 5 Lacerated Breasts: Medicine, Autonomy, Pain 118 Conclusion: Making Flesh Matter 151 Notes 185 Bibliography 211 Index 231 About the Author 255 ix

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In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine h
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