Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (10th Anniversary Edition)

by Duggan; Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780415978736
• ISBN10: 0415978734
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is a collection of essays written during that decade, generated as parts of other, larger activist efforts going on at the time. Read together, the essays trace the progress of the conversations between different activist groups, and between the authors of the pieces, Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter, creating a bridge between feminists, gay activists, those in politics, and those in the law. Since the 1995 publication of Sex Wars, the political landscape has altered significantly. Yet the issues (and essays) are still relevant today. The anniversary edition will contain a new chapter dealing with the changes in the law since the book's publication (Lawrence v. Texas, for example).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Edition of Sex Wars	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Contextualizing the Sexuality Debates: A Chronology 1966-2005	p. 15
Censorship in the Name of Feminism	p. 29
Sexual Dissent and Representation	p. 41
False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation	p. 43
Feminist Historians and Antipornography Campaigns: An Overview	p. 65
Sex Panics	p. 71
Banned in the U.S.A.: What the Hardwick Ruling Will Mean	p. 77
Sexual Dissent and the Law	p. 83
Life After Hardwick	p. 85
Sexual Dissent and the Family: The Sharon Kowalski Case	p. 99
Marriage, Law and Gender: A Feminist Inquiry	p. 105
Identity, Speech and Equality	p. 119
History's Gay Ghetto: The Contradictions of Growth in Lesbian and Gay History	p. 137
Sexual Dissent, Activism and the Academy	p. 147
Making It Perfectly Queer	p. 149
Scholars and Sense	p. 165
Queering the State	p. 171
The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History	p. 185
Lawrence v. Texas as Law and Culture	p. 197
Sexual Dissent in the New Millennium	p. 211
Crossing the Line: The Brandon Teena Case and the Social Psychology of Working-Class Resentment	p. 213
Holy Matrimony!	p. 221
Beyond Gay Marriage	p. 231
The Fact Brief	p. 239
Notes	p. 277
Index	p. 335
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