Is the commodification of BDSM normalizing sexual deviance?
Compose an essay on a topic related to crime and consumerism of your own choosing of no more than
4,000 words. You should compose the question yourself.
Your topic must be related to something we have covered in the module. The aim is to provide you with a lot of
flexibility to pursue a topic you have an interest in, as this is always how students achieve the highest marks.
Your essay could address a crime phenomenon concerning consumerism (such as counterfeit fashion, or drug
consumption); you could analyze a particular case study drawing on theoretical perspectives (such as cultural
criminology) covered in the module; or you could examine the consumption of representations of crime. You
could also evaluate theoretical work on crime and consumerism.
These are couple of the sources that I thought would be useful.
Attwood, F. (2005) Fashion and passion: Marketing sex to women. Sexualities 8(4): 392-406.
Dymock, A. (2013) Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’,
Sexualities 16(8): 880-895.
Evans, D. T (1993) Sexual citizenship: The material construction of sexualities. London: Routledge.
Gill, R. (2008) Empowerment/sexism: Figuring sexual agency in contemporary advertising
Glick, E. (2000) Sex positive: Feminism, queer theory and the politics of transgression, Feminist Review 64:
19-45.
Hennessy, R. (2000) Profit and pleasure: Sexual identities in late capitalism. London: Routledge.
Hubbard, P., Collins, A., and Gorman-Murray, A. (2017) Special Issue: Sex, Consumption and the City, Urban
Studies 54(3). All the articles in this journal special issue may be of interest.
Katz, S. and Marshall, B. (2003) New sex for old: Lifestyle, consumerism, and the ethics of aging well, Journal
of Aging Studies 17(1): 3-16.
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