Susan E. Cook is associate professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University.Sara K. Howe is associate professor of English and creative writing coordinator at Southern New Hampshire University.

The chapters in this collection articulate some exceptionally important and profound ideas. The way the authors embrace their subjects as ‘kinked’ often leads to profound moments of recognition and realization, particularly when they focus on the most troubling sexually explicit material ... The wide scope of the volume overall is to be applauded, and demonstrates that kink studies must be open and inclusive, not merely restricted to tiresome analysis of heteronormative-tinged BDSM.

• Introduction: Entering the FringeSara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook1. Playing Rough: Consent, Captivity, and Rape Role Play in Taboo Erotic RomancesSara K. Howe2. Violating the Vampire: Twihard Fan Fiction as Rape FantasyJane M. Kubiesa3. A Kink of One’s Own: Subversion, Disorientation, and the Feminine Voice in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High SchoolFe Lorraine Reyes4. Queer Beginnings: From Fanzines to Rule 34Brian Watson and Bobby Derie5. It’s a (Bound and Gagged) Living: Sweet Gwendoline and the “Danger Girl” ArchetypeSean Shannon6. Kinking the Canon: Pornography and Prose in Fingersmith and The HandmaidenSusan E. Cook7. “To Test the Limits and Break Through”: How Femslash Rejects Straight-Coding of Queer Experiences in Disney’s FrozenWhitney S. May8. Breaking the Scales: Refusal, Excess, and the Fat Male Body in Supernatural and Harry Potter Fan FictionJonathan A. Rose9. “Roll for Seduction”: Sex as Forbidden Play in Critical Role and The Adventure Zone Fan FictionJosh Zimmerman and Antonnet JohnsonAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

Susan E. Cook is associate professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University.Sara K. Howe is associate professor of English and creative writing coordinator at Southern New Hampshire University.

The chapters in this collection articulate some exceptionally important and profound ideas. The way the authors embrace their subjects as ‘kinked’ often leads to profound moments of recognition and realization, particularly when they focus on the most troubling sexually explicit material ... The wide scope of the volume overall is to be applauded, and demonstrates that kink studies must be open and inclusive, not merely restricted to tiresome analysis of heteronormative-tinged BDSM.

• Introduction: Entering the FringeSara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook1. Playing Rough: Consent, Captivity, and Rape Role Play in Taboo Erotic RomancesSara K. Howe2. Violating the Vampire: Twihard Fan Fiction as Rape FantasyJane M. Kubiesa3. A Kink of One’s Own: Subversion, Disorientation, and the Feminine Voice in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High SchoolFe Lorraine Reyes4. Queer Beginnings: From Fanzines to Rule 34Brian Watson and Bobby Derie5. It’s a (Bound and Gagged) Living: Sweet Gwendoline and the “Danger Girl” ArchetypeSean Shannon6. Kinking the Canon: Pornography and Prose in Fingersmith and The HandmaidenSusan E. Cook7. “To Test the Limits and Break Through”: How Femslash Rejects Straight-Coding of Queer Experiences in Disney’s FrozenWhitney S. May8. Breaking the Scales: Refusal, Excess, and the Fat Male Body in Supernatural and Harry Potter Fan FictionJonathan A. Rose9. “Roll for Seduction”: Sex as Forbidden Play in Critical Role and The Adventure Zone Fan FictionJosh Zimmerman and Antonnet JohnsonAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex