This dissertation is an investigation into how individuals navigate through intersubjective experiences of sexual desire, in order to complicate existing accounts of sexualization, and re-center the embodied experience of the erotic. My goal is to generate a new discursive space to talk about the phenomenon of sexualization by paying attention to not just the oppressive structural aspects, or the hyper-individualistic "personal choice" aspects - but by looking at how it works in people's lives if we understand individuals as being both constrained and free to reinterpret meaning, and build a liberatory sexual politics.
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