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This chapter attempts to describe the ‘historical field’ within which the social construction of ‘Sadomasochism’ was and remains possible and describes the major conceptual frameworks of order that underlie the emergence and enforce the permanence of the label of ‘Sadomasochism’. The different sections of this chapter introduce the reader to the theoretical, conceptual and analytical tools that are used throughout.
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© 2009 Andrea Beckmann
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Beckmann, A. (2009). Deconstructing ‘Normalizing’ Concepts. In: The Social Construction of Sexuality and Perversion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244924_2
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