The body of women and the overload of sexuality

This work is approaching to a historically recent social phenomenon: the hipersexualization of women. It looks into its origins and finds that the idea of the sexual freedom that is developed in the 60s, on one side, and the exaltation of the free market, which was developed from the 80s, on the oth...

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Main Author: Rosa Cobo Bedia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2015-12-01
Series:Investigaciones Feministas
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/INFE/article/view/51376
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spelling doaj-68fa63ac17054b2c9f430768e8ce2a112020-11-25T00:53:12ZengUniversidad Complutense de MadridInvestigaciones Feministas2171-60802015-12-016071910.5209/rev_INFE.2015.v6.5137648730The body of women and the overload of sexualityRosa Cobo Bedia0Universidad de A CoruñaThis work is approaching to a historically recent social phenomenon: the hipersexualization of women. It looks into its origins and finds that the idea of the sexual freedom that is developed in the 60s, on one side, and the exaltation of the free market, which was developed from the 80s, on the other, come together in the goal of overloading women sexuality. The context in which this process takes place is a free and unlimited market which has understood that women`s bodies are a commodity from which are extracted necessaries appreciations for the social reproduction of contemporary patriarchy and neoliberal capitalism.http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/INFE/article/view/51376cuerposobrecarga de sexualidadpatriarcadocapitalismo neoliberallibertad sexual
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The body of women and the overload of sexuality
Investigaciones Feministas
cuerpo
sobrecarga de sexualidad
patriarcado
capitalismo neoliberal
libertad sexual
author_facet Rosa Cobo Bedia
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title The body of women and the overload of sexuality
title_short The body of women and the overload of sexuality
title_full The body of women and the overload of sexuality
title_fullStr The body of women and the overload of sexuality
title_full_unstemmed The body of women and the overload of sexuality
title_sort body of women and the overload of sexuality
publisher Universidad Complutense de Madrid
series Investigaciones Feministas
issn 2171-6080
publishDate 2015-12-01
description This work is approaching to a historically recent social phenomenon: the hipersexualization of women. It looks into its origins and finds that the idea of the sexual freedom that is developed in the 60s, on one side, and the exaltation of the free market, which was developed from the 80s, on the other, come together in the goal of overloading women sexuality. The context in which this process takes place is a free and unlimited market which has understood that women`s bodies are a commodity from which are extracted necessaries appreciations for the social reproduction of contemporary patriarchy and neoliberal capitalism.
topic cuerpo
sobrecarga de sexualidad
patriarcado
capitalismo neoliberal
libertad sexual
url http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/INFE/article/view/51376
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