Feminism and Sexuality

by Jackson, Stevi

• ISBN13: 9780231107099
• ISBN10: 0231107099
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

-- Jane Gallop, author of Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Sexual Skirmishes and Feminist Factions: Twenty-Five Years of Debate on Women and Sexuality	1	(34)
Sue Scott
Stevi Jackson
PART ONE ESSENTIALISM AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
Sexuality	35	(5)
Ann Oakley
Scenes of an Indelicate Character: The Medical Treatment of Victorian Women	40	(6)
Mary Poovey
Women's Friendships and Lesbianism	46	(11)
Sheila Jeffreys
Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea	57	(5)
Andrea Dworkin
The Social Construction of Female Sexuality	62	(12)
Stevi Jackson
Feminine Sexuality	74	(5)
Jacqueline Rose
This Sex Which is Not One	79	(5)
Luce Irigaray
Gender Difference and the Production of Subjectivity	84	(17)
Wendy Hollway
Animals and Biological Determinism	101	(10)
Lynda Birke
PART TWO AFFIRMING AND QUESTIONING SEXUAL CATEGORIES
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm	111	(6)
Anne Koedt
``'Don't Die of Ignorance.'' I Nearly Died of Embarrassment': Condoms in Context	117	(13)
Janet Holland
Caroline Ramazanoglu
Sue Scott
Sue Sharpe
Rachel Thomson
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence	130	(14)
Adrienne Rich
The Straight Mind	144	(6)
Monique Wittig
Hating Masculinity Not Men	150	(5)
Marie-Jo Dhavernas
Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance	155	(7)
Cheryl Clarke
Imitation and Gender Insubordination	162	(4)
Judith Butler
Queer Theorrhea (and What it Might Mean for Feminists)	166	(6)
Catherine Grant
Sisters Under the Skin: A Politics of Heterosexuality	172	(3)
Kadiatu Kanneh
Heterosexuality, Power and Pleasure	175	(7)
Stevi Jackson
PART THREE POWER AND PLEASURE
Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State: An Agenda for Theory	182	(9)
Catharine A. MacKinnon
`It's Everywhere': Sexual Violence as a Continuum	191	(16)
Liz Kelly
The Murderer as Misogynist?	207	(9)
Deborah Cameron
Elizabeth Frazer
Continued Devaluation of Black Womanhood	216	(8)
bell hooks
Desire for the Future: Radical Hope in Passion and Pleasure	224	(6)
Amber Hollibaugh
Feminism and Sadomasochism	230	(8)
Pat Califia
Sadomasochism	238	(7)
Sheila Jeffreys
Sex after AIDS	245	(3)
Rosalind Coward
Pressured Pleasure: Young Women and the Negotiation of Sexual Boundaries	248	(15)
Janet Holland
Caroline Ramazanoglu
Sue Sharpe
Rachel Thomson
Bodies--Pleasures--Powers	263	(13)
Linda Singer
Constructing Lesbian Sexualities	276	(12)
Diane Richardson
PART FOUR COMMERCIAL SEX
The Politics of Prostitution	288	(9)
Judith Walkowitz
Pornography	297	(3)
Andrea Dworkin
Subjects, Objects and Equal Opportunities	300	(7)
Susanne Kappeler
Black Women and the Sex/Gender Hierarchy	307	(7)
Patricia Hill Collins
Wanking in Cyberspace: The Development of Computer Porn	314	(7)
Dianne Butterworth
On the Question of Pornography and Sexual Violence: Moving Beyond Cause and Effect	321	(12)
Deborah Cameron
Elizabeth Frazer
Liberalism and the Contradictions of Oppression	333	(9)
Mary McIntosh
Prostitution: A Difficult Issue for Feminists	342	(16)
Priscilla Alexander
Prostitutes and their Clients	358	(9)
Cecilie Hoigard
Liv Finstad
The Praed Street Project: A Cohort of Prostitute Women in London	367	(6)
Sophie Day
Helen Ward
Serving the Tourist Market: Female Labour in International Tourism	373	(6)
Thanh-Dan Truong
Copyright Acknowledgements	379	(4)
Index of Names	383	(3)
Index of Subjects	386