Ethnographies based around female sexual expression?

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created by ameliabby1996 on 23/01/2025 at 19:01 UTC

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For my etho methods course we are doing research and fieldwork for projects. I was wondering if anyone knew any ethnographies based around female sexual expression? I am doing my project studying local burlesque performers. I want to read as ton as i can throughout this semester, so if you have any ideas on papers/books/ or researchers i should look at in gen.

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Comment by Sandtalon at 24/01/2025 at 00:09 UTC*

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First, I might recommend talking to a research librarian at your university—they are *wizards* at finding sources.

I have some recommendations myself, but they are rather focused on topics (mainly, fanfiction and the like) related to my areas of research.

Bacon-Smith Camille. 1992. Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Not all of this is probably useful for you, but there's a couple of chapters...)

Baudinette, Thomas. 2023. “Idol Shipping Culture: Exploring Queer Sexuality Among Fans of K-Pop.” In The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop, edited by Suk-Young Kim, 249–64. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

———. 2024. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kodaka, Maiko. 2023. “Embrace Me as I Am: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan Community Surrounding Male Porn Stars.” PhD dissertation, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039267[1].

1: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039267

Galbraith, Patrick W. 2015. “Moe Talk: Affective Communication Among Female Fans of Yaoi in Japan.” In Boys Love Manga and Beyond, edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker, 153–68. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781628461190.003.0008[2].

2: https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781628461190.003.0008

Santos, Kristine Michelle L., and Thomas Baudinette. 2024. “Exploring Debates over ‘Boys Love’ Media in the Philippines: From Misogynistic Backlash to Queer Emancipation.” Feminist Media Studies, May, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2345198[3].

3: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2345198

And my own humble contribution[4].

4: https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2485

Although her actual fieldwork was about gay men's subculture, you should also definitely look at some of Gayle Rubin's writings as background reading.