Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon

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By Danielle Lindemann ’02

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(University of Chicago Press) Based on interviews with 66 women who work as professional dominatrices in New York City and San Francisco, this book focuses on how a marginal social space can shed light on American society more generally, teaching us about a set of classic tensions at the heart of our daily lives. Lindemann is a sociologist at Vanderbilt University.

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