Powers of DesireAnn Barr Snitow, Christine Stansell, Sharon Thompson This provocative anthology brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists. They are concerned not only with current sexual issues-abortion, pornography, reproductive and gay rights-but they also raise a host of new issues and questions: How, and in what ways, is sexuality political? Is the struggle for sexual freedom a complement to other struggles for liberation, or will it detract from them? Has the sexual revolution diminished or enriched the lives of women? |
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... gender identity and gender domination in our culture . The peculiar pattern we see in this kind of ritualized violence is that of polarity or splitting : controller and controlled , violator and violated , assertive and yielding . The ...
... gender identity and gender domination in our culture . The peculiar pattern we see in this kind of ritualized violence is that of polarity or splitting : controller and controlled , violator and violated , assertive and yielding . The ...
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... gender are socially constructed experiences . The hallmark of modern liberal sexology , as Vance describes it here , is an eagerness to deny sexual taboos without exploring their social and psychological roots . By ignoring the very ...
... gender are socially constructed experiences . The hallmark of modern liberal sexology , as Vance describes it here , is an eagerness to deny sexual taboos without exploring their social and psychological roots . By ignoring the very ...
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... gender identity is the suppression of natural similarities . " Rubin defines the " sex - gender system " as " the set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of hu- man activity . " Within this ...
... gender identity is the suppression of natural similarities . " Rubin defines the " sex - gender system " as " the set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of hu- man activity . " Within this ...
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