Research Catalog

Title

Feminism and sexualtiy : a reader / edited by Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Jackson, Stevi.
• Scott, Sue.

Description

vi, 390 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This reader brings together for the first time feminist writings which represent the full range of perspectives and debates on sexuality over the last twenty-five years. It offers a guide to one of the most fiercely contested areas within feminism, covering issues such as pornography, prostitution, sexual violence, young women and sexuality, heterosexuality and lesbianism, sadomasochism, AIDS and the international sex industry."--Jacket.

Subject

• Feminism
• Sex
• Sexuality
• Women's Rights
• Feminism > history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Sexual skirmishes and feminist factions : twenty-five years of debate on women and sexuality / Sue Scott and Stevi Jackson -- 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 / Jannet Holland [and others] -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existance / 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 / Catherine 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 Coward -- Pressured pleasure : young women and the negoitiation of sexual boundaries / Janet Holland [and others] -- Bodies-pleasure-power / 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 Butterworth -- On 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 -- Prostitution : a difficult issue for feminists / Priscilla Alexander -- Prostitutes and their clients / Cecilie Høigård and Liv Finstad -- The Praed Street project : a cohort of prostitute women in London / Sophie Day and Helen Ward -- Serving the tourist market : female labout in international tourism / Thanh-Dan Truong.

ISBN

• 074860622X (pbk)
• 074860832X (hbk.)
• 070280832X (cased) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

gb^96070328^

OCLC

35637805

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library