Author

Publication

2017 - Duke University Press Books, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100822368544
  • ISBN-100822368668
  • ISBN-139780822368540
  • ISBN-139780822368663
  • AmazonB074TCX2HZ
and 6 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017000630
  • OCLC Control Number963793523
  • Better World Books9780822368663
  • Better World Books9780822368540
  • Better World BooksP8-CWI-117
  • Open LibraryOL26952606M

Classifications

  • DDC338.4/730670973
  • LCCHQ447 .C66 2017
  • LCCHQ447C66 2017

Alternate Titles

  • How feminist sex-toy stores changed the business of pleasure

Description

"In the 1970s a group of pioneering feminist entrepreneurs launched a movement that ultimately changed the way sex was talked about, had, and enjoyed. Boldly reimagining who sex shops were for and the kinds of spaces they could be, these entrepreneurs opened sex-toy stores like Eve's Garden, Good Vibrations, and Babeland not just as commercial enterprises, but to provide educational and community resources as well. In Vibrator Nation Lynn Comella tells the fascinating history of how these stores raised sexual consciousness, redefined the adult industry, and changed women's lives. Comella describes a world where sex-positive retailers double as social activists, where products are framed as tools of liberation, and where consumers are willing to pay for the promise of better living--one conversation, vibrator, and orgasm at a time"--Back cover.

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Other Editions

  • Vibrator nation: how feminist sex-toy stores changed the business of pleasureDuke University Press Books2017-01-01

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