Deviations

by Rubin, Gayle S.

• ISBN13: 9780822349860
• ISBN10: 0822349868
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-28
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Deviationsis the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminism, lesbian and gay studies, queer activism, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975, with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing effect on feminist thinking and became a foundational text for queer theory. Her status as a significant feminist and queer theorist was cemented in 1984, with “Thinking Sex,” an examination of how certain sexual behaviors are constructed as moral or natural, and others as unnatural. Along with such canonical pieces of Rubin’s writing, Deviationsfeatures less-known but equally insightful pieces, including her reflections on lesbian history, lesbian gender, the feminist antipornography movement, the feminist sex wars, the politics of sadomasochism, crusades against prostitution, and the historical development of sexual knowledge. In the introduction, Rubin traces her personal and intellectual evolution and discusses the development and reception of some of her most influential essays. Like the book it opens, the introduction highlights the major lines of inquiry pursued for nearly forty years by a singularly important theorist of sex, gender, and culture.

Author Biography

Gayle S. Rubin is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Sex, Gender, Politics
The Traffic in Women	p. 33
Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex
The Trouble with Trafficking	p. 66
Afterthoughts on "The Traffic in Women"
Introduction to A Woman Appeared to Me	p. 87
The Leather Menace	p. 109
Comments on Politics and s/m
Thinking Sex	p. 137
Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality
Afterword to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"	p. 182
Postscript to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"	p. 190
Blood under the Bridge	p. 194
Reflections on "Thinking Sex"
The Catacombs	p. 224
A Temple of the Butthole
Of Catamites and Kings	p. 241
Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries
Misguided, Dangerous, and Wrong	p. 254
An Analysis of Antipornography Politics
Sexual Traffic	p. 276
Interview with Gayle Rubin by Judith Butler
	p. 310
Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in Urban North America
Geologies of Queer Studies	p. 347
It's Déjà Vu All Over Again
Notes	p. 357
Bibliography	p. 425
Index	p. 469
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