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- catalog abstract ""The Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own first-hand experiences as an operator, reveal the complex ways operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, deception and belief." "Flowers discovers that operators - who assume names like Tiffany and Corvette - create a virtual reality in which callers can act out fantasies that operators may find boring, disgusting, or even frightening. She also discovers that even those women who are skilled at keeping their "true self" and their phone sex persona separate find that they have to struggle to protect that self and to maintain the ability to experience real intimacy." "The Fantasy Factory raises provocative questions about the manufacture of artificial intimacy and the technological mediation of intimacy, as well as about the social construction of sexuality and gender."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b10653914.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""The Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own first-hand experiences as an operator, reveal the complex ways operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, deception and belief." "Flowers discovers that operators - who assume names like Tiffany and Corvette - create a virtual reality in which callers can act out fantasies that operators may find boring, disgusting, or even frightening. She also discovers that even those women who are skilled at keeping their "true self" and their phone sex persona separate find that they have to struggle to protect that self and to maintain the ability to experience real intimacy." "The Fantasy Factory raises provocative questions about the manufacture of artificial intimacy and the technological mediation of intimacy, as well as about the social construction of sexuality and gender."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-139) and index.".
- catalog extent "144 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fantasy factory.".
- catalog identifier "0812216431 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0812234332 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fantasy factory.".
- catalog isPartOf "Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog relation "Fantasy factory.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "306.77 21".
- catalog subject "Feminist theory United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ23 .F66 1998".
- catalog subject "Intimacy (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "Technology and civilization United States.".
- catalog subject "Technology and civilization.".
- catalog subject "Telephone sex United States.".
- catalog title "The fantasy factory : an insider's view of the phone sex industry / Amy Flowers.".
- catalog type "text".