"The Pleasure Is All Mine": Music and Female Sexual Autonomy

Authors

  • Miriam Strube

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.73

Abstract

To analyze sexual autonomy this paper concentrates on the recent concept of relational autonomy, which is different from the classic tradition in its multilevel perspective on persons as embodied, desiring, creative as well as rational creatures. I then apply this concept to music asking in which way women performers are both relational and (sexually) autonomous.

Author Biography

Miriam Strube

CVEducationsince 1/2002Bochum University: Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies. Bochum, Germany.9/2001-12/2001Columbia University: Visiting scholar at the Institute of Research on Women and Gender. New York, USA.7/2000-10/2000International Women's University. Hannover, Germany.4/92 - 6/2000Bochum University: American Studies, English Literature, Philosophy. M.A. awarded 6/2000 ("mit Auszeichnung"/with Honors).9/95 - 5/96New York University: Graduate Program at the Department of American Studies. New York, USA. Professional Experience4/2004 to presentAssistant Professor (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin). Bochum University, Department of English Literature/American Studies.4/2004 to presentPart-time Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte). Dortmund University.7/2000 - 3/2004Research Assistant (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft). Bochum University, Department of English Literature/American Studies.1/98 - 6/2000Teaching Assistant (studentische Hilfskraft). Bochum University, Department of English Literature/American Studies.10/94 - 4/95Translation of three philosophical book chapters.7/93 - 8/93Internship at the newspaper The Westsider. New York, USA. Publications"Starke Frauen in Populären Medien oder: Der Wolf im schicken Schafspelz," in: Julia Weisberg et al. (eds.), Ruberta, No. 9, 2004: 46-50."Beyond Pro-Sex and Anti-Porn: Legislation, Justice, and the Feminist Debate on Pornography," in: Birgit Christensen et al. (ed.), wissen macht geschlecht. Philosophie und die Zukunft der "condition féminine," Zurich 2002: 524-532."Words? Indeed! Über Judith Butler: Haß spricht, in: SEMA. Rezensionen in Sachen Kommunikation, Essen 1999: 23-28. Presentations"'The Pleasure Is All Mine': Female Sexual Autonomy and Music" (American Studies Forum for Postgraduates, Frankfurt, Germany, 11/2004)."Gender Studies" (Faculty Lecture: Cultural Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2004)."Express YourSelves. Zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung der Frau in Literatur und populärer Kultur" (American Studies Workshop, Dortmund, Germany, 1/2004)."Sexuality and Popular Culture" (Faculty Lecture: Cultural Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2003)."Feminism and Sexuality" (Faculty Lecture: Cultural Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2002)."Porn in the USA. The Feminist Debate on Pornography" (IX. Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, Zurich, Switzerland, 10/2000). Research Grants9/2001-11/2001Columbia University : Awarded a full scholarship by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) as visiting scholar.9/95 - 5/96New York University: Awarded a full scholarship by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for the graduate program at the Department of American Studies.

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Strube, Miriam. “‘The Pleasure Is All Mine’: Music and Female Sexual Autonomy”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 5, Mar. 2012, doi:10.5283/copas.73.

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