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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Page 78
... men's treats . " Pleasures don't cost girls so much as they do young men , " asserted one saleswoman . " If they are agreeable they are invited out a good deal , and they are not allowed to pay anything . " Reformer Lillian Betts ...
... men's treats . " Pleasures don't cost girls so much as they do young men , " asserted one saleswoman . " If they are agreeable they are invited out a good deal , and they are not allowed to pay anything . " Reformer Lillian Betts ...
Page 223
... men's lives . The tavern singers ' songs aroused a range of emotions - love , bittersweet sadness , protec- tiveness - that the culture sanctioned supposedly callous men to expe- rience only in such controlled circumstances . And these ...
... men's lives . The tavern singers ' songs aroused a range of emotions - love , bittersweet sadness , protec- tiveness - that the culture sanctioned supposedly callous men to expe- rience only in such controlled circumstances . And these ...
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... men who oppose censorship are characterized as having a prurient interest in pornography , and men's growing interest in their partner's sexual satisfaction is said simply to demonstrate men's obses- sion with sexual performance ...
... men who oppose censorship are characterized as having a prurient interest in pornography , and men's growing interest in their partner's sexual satisfaction is said simply to demonstrate men's obses- sion with sexual performance ...
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