By Merl Storr
Attractive, hedonistic, hilarious - Ann Summers events are the final word ladies' evening in. Promising the appropriate antidote to the toils of way of life - sexual excitement - they're the 'naughty yet great' model of the vintage Tupperware® party.Ann Summers events are enormously renowned, with round 4000 events held in Britain a week. the root is straightforward: to supply an all-female surroundings the place ladies can purchase attractive underwear, erotic style, intercourse toys and different sex-related items. in lots of respects those events permit ladies to transgress social taboos within the convenience in their personal houses. yet also they are a refined technique of developing and imposing heterosexual femininity.This e-book investigates what fairly is going on at those 'special' homosocial gatherings, the place heterosexual girls drink, chuckle, store, play celebration video games and discuss intercourse. Storr develops a brand new research of the methods heterosexual girls establish with and opposed to one another - and of what this tells us approximately gender, sexuality and intake in modern society. Drawing on either player statement and in-depth interviews with occasion organizers, this attention-grabbing and enjoyable ebook is an critical advisor to the politics of 'post-feminist' tradition.
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Introducing Ann Summers 31 it. But nevertheless feeling empowered is not the same as being powerful. In effect this ‘inner strength’ is a kind of compensation for women’s lack of real socio-political power. This was strongly brought home to me during a meeting of Dawn’s unit, when she presented one of her ‘girls’ with a necklace to mark the latter’s imminent promotion to unit organiser. ’ The presentation was very emotional, and the party organiser receiving it became quite tearful: both the necklace and the engraving clearly meant a great deal, not just to the recipient and to Dawn, but also to the other unit members present.
Which not a lot of places out there will do that. [. ] Oh definitely. (Dawn) This sense of ‘inner strength’ is immensely important in party organisers’ lives, and I certainly do not wish to denigrate or underestimate 6. com. Introducing Ann Summers 31 it. But nevertheless feeling empowered is not the same as being powerful. In effect this ‘inner strength’ is a kind of compensation for women’s lack of real socio-political power. This was strongly brought home to me during a meeting of Dawn’s unit, when she presented one of her ‘girls’ with a necklace to mark the latter’s imminent promotion to unit organiser.
Only him. ] Selfish! ] I’m getting him out of that, don’t worry! ] No. He don’t mind me doing it, um, he has took a few, um, ’phone calls for me. Even though – ’cause normally he forgets people have ’phoned me, so it’s – I’m trying to get him into the swing of writing people’s name and numbers down. Um, but, like, he’s passed on the messages and what have you. But, um, like FX, she’s – her husband will take orders and things on the ’phone, no way would he do that. No way. He’ll say ‘Oh, I’ll give you her mobile number’ [laughter] if I’m not here, you know, or ‘’Phone back at so-and-so time’.
