Virginity for Sale: A Foucauldian Moment in the History of Sexuality

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• 作者：Jennifer C. Dunn (1)
  Tennley A. Vik (2)
  
• 关键词：Sex work ; Prostitution ; Virginity ; Rhetoric ; Foucault
• 刊名：Sexuality & Culture
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：September 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：18
• 期：3
• 页码：487-504
• 全文大小：255 KB
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• 作者单位：Jennifer C. Dunn (1)
  Tennley A. Vik (2)
  
  1. Dominican University, River Forest, IL, USA
  2. Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, USA
  
• ISSN：1936-4822

文摘

Natalie Dylan attempted to auction her virginity through the website of a legal Nevada brothel. Public discourses surrounding Dylan’s auction have characterized it as everything from a smart business transaction to the sale of her self-respect. Using a theoretical frame from Foucault, methods of textual construction, and rhetorical methods of analysis guided by cluster criticism, our paper explores how online discourses surrounding the auction enact problematics concerning the concepts of virginity and the interrelationships among women, sex, money, and power in American society. While Dylan’s discourse attempts to create space for sexual women and commodified sexuality as empowering for women, responses to her enterprise indicate there is little room for a woman’s unapologetic offer of her commodified virginity.