Review of Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television by Kyra Clarke. Routledge. 2017. (HB/eBook). 248pp. Review by Madita Oeming, University of Paderborn, Germany.
Tag: adolescent sexuality
Fifty Shades Duller, Part I
by Carol Siegel, Washington State University Vancouver, US.
If one is a feminist, or even sympathetic to the idea that women aren't inferior to men, there is a lot to be outraged by in the Fifty Shades franchise. But I write this negative response to Fifty Shades Darker (James Foley 2017) neither in anger nor sadness, but in disappointment because the film was so boring.
‘I always want to be touched’: The Adolescent Female as Sexual Subject in The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
by Melissa Hair, Northumbria University, UK. The Diary of a Teenage Girl opens with a triumphant confession from 15-year-old protagonist Minnie (Bel Powley).
‘I had sex today, holy shit!’