Summary : A comprehensive overview of feminist debates surrounding sexuality identifying the main theoretical positions and trends
Print Book , English , 1996
Publisher : Columbia University Press , New York , 1996 Physical Description : vi, 390 pages ; 25 cm. 9780231107099 , 9780231107082 , 0231107099 , 0231107080 OCLC Number / Unique Identifier : 34604160 Sexuality / Ann Oakley Scenes of an indelicate character: the medical treatment of Victorian women / Mary Poovey Women's friendships and lesbianism / Sheila Jeffreys Biological superiority: the world's most dangerous and deadly idea / Andrea Dworkin The social construction of female sexuality / Stevi Jackson Feminine sexuality / Jacqueline Rose This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray Gender difference and the production of subjectivity / Wendy Hollway Animals and biological determinism / Lynda Birke The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anne Koedt'"Don't die of ignorance." I nearly died of embarrassment': condoms in context / Janet Holland [and others]. Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich
The straight mind / Monique Wittig Hating masculinity not men / Marie-Jo Dhavernas Lesbianism: an act of resistance / Cheryl Clarke Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler Queer Theorrhea (and what it might mean for feminists) / Catherine Grant Sisters under the skin: a politics of heterosexuality / Kadiatu Kanneh Heterosexuality, power and pleasure / Stevi Jackson Feminism, Marxism, method and the state: an agenda for theory / Catharine A. MacKinnon 'It's everywhere': sexual violence as a continuum / Liz Kelly The murderer as misogynist? / Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer Continued devaluation of black womanhood / bell hooks Desire for the future: radical hope in passion and pleasure / Amber Hollibaugh Feminism and sadomasochism / Pat Califia Sadomasochism / Sheila Jeffreys. Sex after AIDS / Rosalind CowardPressured pleasure: young women and the negotiation of sexual boundaries / Janet Holland [and others]
powers / Linda Singer Constructing lesbian sexualities / Diane Richardson The politics of prostitution / Judith Walkowitz Pornography / Andrea Dworkin Subjects, objects and equal opportunities / Susanne Kappeler Black women and the sex/gender hierarchy / Patricia Hill Collins Wanking in cyberspace: the development of computer porn / Dianne ButterworthOn the question of pornography and sexual violence: moving beyond cause and effect / Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer. Liberalism and the contradictions of oppression / Mary McIntosh