Corie Hammers
Biographic Data
| ID | 646007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corie Hammers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammers |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reworking Trauma through BDSM
As part of a much larger ethnographic study of lesbian/queer sex publics, this essay focuses on a particular erotic practice—sadomasochistic reenactments of lived trauma. Informed by queer-of-color critique, feminist performance studies, and psychoanalysis, this essay explores the necessary queer conditions enabling such returns, by which I mean the reenacting through BDSM of one’s own lived trauma in order to reconfigure it. This queerness, as a…
The unruly queer figure's phallic seductions and the re/production of sexual (in)difference
This article interrogates a psychoanalytically inflected strain of anti-social queer theory that in privileging refusal and negation, views as paradigmatic of 'queerness' the destructive, annihilative aspects in (queer) sex. In this view, sexuality is a product of the unconscious, thus irreducible to gender, such that gender is irrelevant to (and indeed hinders) understandings of desire. Informed by feminism, which views gender as crucial to any …
Corporeality, Sadomasochism and Sexual Trauma
Work in body studies and theories of affect challenge the mind/body dualism where human action/behavior is shown to be an embodied, lived event. More specifically, bodily practices not only inform/shape human subjectivity but convey what language-words-often cannot. BDSM is one such practice that illuminates embodied subjectivities, where the flesh proves pivotal to one's orientation to/with the world. In this article I explore women BDSMers who,…
The privilege of perversities: Race, class and education among polyamorists and kinksters
This article focuses on kinksters – people involved in ‘kinky’ or ‘perverted’ sexual acts and relationships frequently involving bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and/or sadism/masochism (also referred to as sadomasochism), and polyamorists – people who engage in openly conducted, multiple partner, romantic and/or sexual relationships. Being accused of being a pervert can have detrimental consequences, and although everyone involved in ‘pe…
Space, Agency, and the Transfiguring of Lesbian/Queer Desire
In this study, the author uses ethnographic and interview data from Pussy Palace, a lesbian/queer bathhouse in Toronto, Canada, to examine the ways in which the bathhouse space impacted participants' sexuality, behaviors, and notions of self. The Toronto Women's Bathhouse Committee (TWBC), an explicitly feminist and queer organization, is responsible for putting on Pussy Palace events and in creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously sexual an…
An Examination of Lesbian/Queer Bathhouse Culture and the Social Organization of (Im)Personal Sex
Physical features of space shape the sex and sexual interaction that occurs within bathhouses. Although there is scholarly interest in and documentation of male public sexual cultures, lesbian/queer public sexualities have been sorely neglected. In examining two Canadian lesbian/queer bathhouses- Pussy Palace in Toronto and SheDogs in Halifax-this article fills some of this gap. Utilizing ethnographic methods (in-depth interviews and participant …
Bodies that speak and the promises of queer: Looking to Two Lesbian/Queer Bathhouses for a Third Way
In utilizing my ethnographic research on two Canadian lesbian/queer bathhouses, Pussy Palace in Toronto and SheDogs in Halifax, I seek to show the centrality of queer and the concomitant promises of a queer project when it comes to bodily speech and sexual articulation. While many feminists have criticized queer as being regressive and ineffective, I explicate the ways in which the queering of space employed by the organizers of Pussy Palace and …
The privilege of perversities: Race, class and education among polyamorists and kinksters
This article focuses on kinksters – people involved in ‘kinky’ or ‘perverted’ sexual acts and relationships frequently involving bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and/or sadism/masochism (also referred to as sadomasochism), and polyamorists – people who engage in openly conducted, multiple partner, romantic and/or sexual relationships. Being accused of being a pervert can have detrimental consequences, and although everyone involved in ‘pe…
Corporeality, Sadomasochism and Sexual Trauma
Work in body studies and theories of affect challenge the mind/body dualism where human action/behavior is shown to be an embodied, lived event. More specifically, bodily practices not only inform/shape human subjectivity but convey what language-words-often cannot. BDSM is one such practice that illuminates embodied subjectivities, where the flesh proves pivotal to one's orientation to/with the world. In this article I explore women BDSMers who,…
An Examination of Lesbian/Queer Bathhouse Culture and the Social Organization of (Im)Personal Sex
Physical features of space shape the sex and sexual interaction that occurs within bathhouses. Although there is scholarly interest in and documentation of male public sexual cultures, lesbian/queer public sexualities have been sorely neglected. In examining two Canadian lesbian/queer bathhouses- Pussy Palace in Toronto and SheDogs in Halifax-this article fills some of this gap. Utilizing ethnographic methods (in-depth interviews and participant …
Space, Agency, and the Transfiguring of Lesbian/Queer Desire
In this study, the author uses ethnographic and interview data from Pussy Palace, a lesbian/queer bathhouse in Toronto, Canada, to examine the ways in which the bathhouse space impacted participants' sexuality, behaviors, and notions of self. The Toronto Women's Bathhouse Committee (TWBC), an explicitly feminist and queer organization, is responsible for putting on Pussy Palace events and in creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously sexual an…
The unruly queer figure's phallic seductions and the re/production of sexual (in)difference
This article interrogates a psychoanalytically inflected strain of anti-social queer theory that in privileging refusal and negation, views as paradigmatic of 'queerness' the destructive, annihilative aspects in (queer) sex. In this view, sexuality is a product of the unconscious, thus irreducible to gender, such that gender is irrelevant to (and indeed hinders) understandings of desire. Informed by feminism, which views gender as crucial to any …
Bodies that speak and the promises of queer: Looking to Two Lesbian/Queer Bathhouses for a Third Way
In utilizing my ethnographic research on two Canadian lesbian/queer bathhouses, Pussy Palace in Toronto and SheDogs in Halifax, I seek to show the centrality of queer and the concomitant promises of a queer project when it comes to bodily speech and sexual articulation. While many feminists have criticized queer as being regressive and ineffective, I explicate the ways in which the queering of space employed by the organizers of Pussy Palace and …
Bodies that speak and the promises of queer: Looking to Two Lesbian/Queer Bathhouses for a Third Way
In utilizing my ethnographic research on two Canadian lesbian/queer bathhouses, Pussy Palace in Toronto and SheDogs in Halifax, I seek to show the centrality of queer and the concomitant promises of a queer project when it comes to bodily speech and sexual articulation. While many feminists have criticized queer as being regressive and ineffective, I explicate the ways in which the queering of space employed by the organizers of Pussy Palace and …
Space, Agency, and the Transfiguring of Lesbian/Queer Desire
In this study, the author uses ethnographic and interview data from Pussy Palace, a lesbian/queer bathhouse in Toronto, Canada, to examine the ways in which the bathhouse space impacted participants' sexuality, behaviors, and notions of self. The Toronto Women's Bathhouse Committee (TWBC), an explicitly feminist and queer organization, is responsible for putting on Pussy Palace events and in creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously sexual an…
An Examination of Lesbian/Queer Bathhouse Culture and the Social Organization of (Im)Personal Sex
Physical features of space shape the sex and sexual interaction that occurs within bathhouses. Although there is scholarly interest in and documentation of male public sexual cultures, lesbian/queer public sexualities have been sorely neglected. In examining two Canadian lesbian/queer bathhouses- Pussy Palace in Toronto and SheDogs in Halifax-this article fills some of this gap. Utilizing ethnographic methods (in-depth interviews and participant …
The privilege of perversities: Race, class and education among polyamorists and kinksters
This article focuses on kinksters – people involved in ‘kinky’ or ‘perverted’ sexual acts and relationships frequently involving bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and/or sadism/masochism (also referred to as sadomasochism), and polyamorists – people who engage in openly conducted, multiple partner, romantic and/or sexual relationships. Being accused of being a pervert can have detrimental consequences, and although everyone involved in ‘pe…
Corporeality, Sadomasochism and Sexual Trauma
Work in body studies and theories of affect challenge the mind/body dualism where human action/behavior is shown to be an embodied, lived event. More specifically, bodily practices not only inform/shape human subjectivity but convey what language-words-often cannot. BDSM is one such practice that illuminates embodied subjectivities, where the flesh proves pivotal to one's orientation to/with the world. In this article I explore women BDSMers who,…
The unruly queer figure's phallic seductions and the re/production of sexual (in)difference
This article interrogates a psychoanalytically inflected strain of anti-social queer theory that in privileging refusal and negation, views as paradigmatic of 'queerness' the destructive, annihilative aspects in (queer) sex. In this view, sexuality is a product of the unconscious, thus irreducible to gender, such that gender is irrelevant to (and indeed hinders) understandings of desire. Informed by feminism, which views gender as crucial to any …
Reworking Trauma through BDSM
As part of a much larger ethnographic study of lesbian/queer sex publics, this essay focuses on a particular erotic practice—sadomasochistic reenactments of lived trauma. Informed by queer-of-color critique, feminist performance studies, and psychoanalysis, this essay explores the necessary queer conditions enabling such returns, by which I mean the reenacting through BDSM of one’s own lived trauma in order to reconfigure it. This queerness, as a…
Gender Studies (7 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Lesbian (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)