| Description |
xvii, 429 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
New feminist library |
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Virago non-fiction |
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New feminist library (London, England)
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| Contents |
SECTION II. The capitalist paradox : expanding and contracting pleasures. Sex and society : a research note from social history and anthropology / Ellen Ross and Rayna Rapp -- "Charity Girls" and city pleasures : historical notes on working-class sexuality, 1880-1920 / Kathy Peiss -- Marching to a different drummer : lesbian and gay GIs in World War II / Allan Bérubé -- Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio |
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SECTION III. Sexual revolutions. Family, sexual morality, and popular movements in turn-of-the-century America / Barbara Epstein -- Feminism, men, and modern love : Greenwich Village, 1900-1925 / Ellen Kay Trimberger -- The new woman and the rationalization of sexuality in Weimar Germany / Atina Grossmann |
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SECTION IV. The institution of heterosexuality. Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich -- Russian working women : sexuality in bonding patterns and the politics of daily life / Anne Bobroff -- They're always curious / Irena Klepfisz -- The Afro-American female : the historical context of the construction of sexual identity / Rennie Simson -- I just came out pregnant / Felicita Garcia -- Mass market romance : pornography for women is different / Ann Barr Snitow -- Issues and answers / Myra Goldberg -- Garden paths, descents / Sharon Thompson |
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SECTION V. Domination, submission, and the unconscious. Master and slave : the fantasy of erotic domination / Jessica Benjamin -- Outside the operating room of the sex-change doctor / Sharon Olds -- Movie / Nancy Harrison -- Street dream #1 / Sharon Thompson -- Is the gaze male? / E. Ann Kaplan -- "The mind that burns in each body" : women, rape, and racial violence / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Hearts of darkness / Barbara Omolade |
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SECTION VI. On sexual openness. Gender systems, ideology, and sex research / Carole S. Vance -- The teacher / Carole Rosenthal -- What we're rollin around in bed with : sexual silences in feminism / Amber Hollibaugh and Cherríe Moraga -- In the morning / Jayne Cortez -- Bestiary / Sharon Olds -- A story of a girl and her dog / Alix Kates Shulman |
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Preface to the British edition / Rosalind Coward -- Introduction / Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, Sharon Thompson |
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SECTION I. Current controversies. Male vice and female virtue : feminism and the politics of prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain / Judith R. Walkowitz -- The new feminism of Yin and Yang / Alice Echols -- Feminism, moralism, and pornography / Ellen Willis -- My mother liked to fuck / Joan Nestle -- Abortion : is a woman a person? / Elen Willis -- The fear that feminism will free men first / Deirdre English |
| Analysis |
Sex relations - Feminist viewpoints |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : Monthly Review Press, 1983 |
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Sex relations. - Feminist viewpoints (BNB/PRECIS) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Originally published New York : Monthly Review Press, 1983 |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences)
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Sex -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex.
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| Author |
Snitow, Ann Barr, 1943-
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Stansell, Christine.
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Thompson, Sharon.
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| LC no. |
87672998 |
| ISBN |
0860685268 (paperback) |
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