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Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2012-07-02T18:54:46Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 White_Donna.pdf: 4232408 bytes, checksum: e48d8a250d15245f5ea56ef7f06f3ad5 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-02-03T19:45:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Donna_White.pdf: 4231998 bytes, checksum: 4e1b4c2dd69b523b37229ee1ee471ac8 (MD5) license.txt: 4060 bytes, checksum: 9a8856073e601ce671fac39ecc20fcc7 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2013-02-03T19:47:51Z Item is restricted until 2015-02-03T19:47:48Z Manalansan, Martin F. Manalansan, Martin F. Moodie, Ellen Torres, Arlene Pleck, Elizabeth H. White, Donna 2013-02-03T19:45:39Z 2013-02-03T19:45:39Z 2015-02-03T11:00:36Z 2012-12 2013-02-03T19:45:39Z 2012-12 This ethnography explores the popular culture of in-home female-only sex-toy sales parties in St. Louis, Missouri. In particular, it examines how women socially construct gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and identity, through consumptive practices and conversations. As female-only spaces, women create these parties as safe spaces to consume intimate merchandise, perform dynamic identities, and enact captivating performances of gender and sexuality. At sex-toy-parties, women undergo sexual liberations; and they make revealing statements about their sexual identities, behaviors, fetishes, and deviances. Women bond and gossip about everything from national politics to neighborhood church scandals. Women at these intimate-product parties discuss and reveal intimate sexual desires, taboos, and indulgences. They also speak openly about their newly acquired sexual commodities and sexual liberations. In a conservative and southern cultured space, like St. Louis, these parties are intriguing spaces to better understand just how women socially construct their sexual identities, alter their sexual behaviors, and become enlightened about their bodies, minds, souls, and sexualities. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:35:57-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2015-02-03 13:47:48 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 42386 on 2015-02-03T11:00:36Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42438 en Copyright 2012 Donna White Anthropology Ethnography Gender Sexuality Sex-Toy Party All the buzzzzz: women making gender and sexuality at sex-toy parties in St. Louis text Anthropology 1241 Anthropology 0340 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Anthropology -UIUC 10KS0340PHD