Citation

Morgan M. Theory Psychol. 2011; 21(4): 517-531.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0959354310372267

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper engages the notion of parallax: the moment of irreconcilable difference, the gap, the tension, in the presentation of things seen from different perspectives. In this case the particular "thing seen" from different perspectives is something like a subject position in which women's desire is inscribed as sado-masochistic--both in popular accounts of intimate violence and in more academic accounts of feminist textual resistances within the discourse of victimization. In the process, two stories involving encounters with sado-masochism and feminist desire dialogue with other texts to create problematics within the irreconcilable subject positions they produce when a feminist woman narrates.