Feminism and Sexuality

A Reader

Plot

A comprehensive overview of feminist debates surrounding sexuality identifying the main theoretical positions and trends. Contributors include Judith Butler, bell hooks, Luce Irigaray, Catherine MacKinnon, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, Judith Walkowitz and Monique Wittig.

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 Coward
Pressured pleasure: young women and the negotiation of sexual boundaries / Janet Holland [and others]
Bodies
pleasures
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 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 labour in international tourism / Thanh-Dan Truong