Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions
Series Editors
Rob Fisher, Director of Progressive Connexions
M. Susanne Schotanus, Director of Publications
Editorial Board
Ann-Marie Cook, Principal Policy and Legislation Officer, Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney General, Australia
Teresa Cutler-Broyles, Director of Opportunities and Research, Progressive Connexions
John Parry, Edward Brunet Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, USA
Karl Spracklen, Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture, Leeds Beckett University, UK
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Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions promotes innovative research and encourages exemplary interdisciplinary practice, thinking, and living. Books in the series focus on developing dialogues between disciplines and among disciplines, professions, practices, and vocations in which the interaction of chapters and authors is of paramount importance. They bring cognate topics and ideas into orbit with each other while simultaneously alerting readers to new questions, issues, and problems. The series encourages interdisciplinary interaction and knowledge sharing and, to this end, promotes imaginative collaborative projects which foster inclusive pathways to global understandings.
Kink and Everyday Life: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Practice and Portrayal
Edited by
KYLO-PATRICK R. HART
Texas Christian University, USA
And
TERESA CUTLER-BROYLES
University of New Mexico, USA
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First edition 2021
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Table of Contents
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Nick J. Mule
Lucie Drdova and Adela Molzer Hrabakova
Noelle Summers
Lorraine Rumson
Jeremy Vaughan
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
M. Susanne Schotanus
Teresa Cutler-Broyles
About the Contributors
Teresa Cutler-Broyles has a master's degree in Cultural Studies and a master's certification in Architectural Historic Preservation. She is a professional writer, published on a wide variety of subjects in both fiction and nonfiction venues. She teaches Film and Cultural Analysis at the University of New Mexico (USA), is Director of Opportunities and Research at Progressive Connexions (UK), and is the Resident Director for a study abroad program in Perugia (Italy). Her research interests include architecture, circuses, cultural theory, dance, film theory, gardens, historical preservation, Italy and Italian history, performance, science fiction (especially Star Trek), sexuality and gender, travel, and vampires and other creatures of the night.
Lucie Drdov (PhD, Masaryk University) is a recent graduate of PhD studies in the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic). Her research interests include ethnography, gender, identities, marginalized groups, and subcultures. She has published articles on virtual ethnography, virtual identities, current legislation regarding BDSM practices, the development of contemporary BDSM subculture, and the conception of BDSM in Fifty Shades of Grey.
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart (PhD, University of Michigan) is Chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at Texas Christian University (USA), where he teaches courses in film and television history, theory, and criticism and queer media studies. He is the author of several books about media (including The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television and Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible), founding coeditor of the academic journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, and a recipient of the AEJMC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Interest Group Leroy F. Aarons Award for Lifetime Contributions to LGBTQ Education and Research.
Adla Mlzer Hrabkov studied Culturology and Anthropology at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). A BDSM enthusiast, she also likes to explore human sexuality from theoretical and philosophical points of view. Currently, she organizes BDSM events in the Czech Republic with a group that represents the new scene. She focuses primarily on role-playing aspects and how they affect practitioners' behaviors.
Nick J. Mul (PhD, University of Manchester) is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, cross-appointed to the Faculty of Health and the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, and is Coordinator of the Sexuality Studies Program at York University in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). His research interests include the social inclusion/exclusion of LGBTQ populations in social policy and service provision and their recognition as distinct communities in cultural, systemic, and structural contexts. He also engages in critical analysis of the LGBTQ movement and the development of queer liberation theory.
Lorraine Rumson has an MA in English Studies from the Freie Universitt Berlin (Germany), with a concentration in Victorian literature. Her MA research concerns femininity and modernity in Victorian Jewish writing, and she is currently working on her PhD at the Freie Universitt Berlin on Victorian Jewish Medievalism. She has presented on Victorian porn at conferences in Austria and the Czech Republic, and has been interviewed on the subject for Canadian radio. She is the Network Coordinator for Progressive Connexions and editor-in-chief of the Berlin-based independent literary journal FU Review.
M. Susanne Schotanus is an Independent Researcher with a master's degree in Research in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Her work has focused on alternative sexual practices and relationship structures, especially forms of kink and BDSM. She aims to show how BDSM practices are an inherent part of Western culture, in that they share some of the same foundational concepts. She is currently a mentor in the CARAS program and involved in the production of several edited volumes on the topics of kink and BDSM, as both contributor and editor.
