elizabeth bernstein is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and coeditor of Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Routledge, 2005).
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