Women Sexuality And The Political Power Of Pleasure

Author : Susie Jolly,Andrea Cornwall,Kate Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780325750

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Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure by Susie Jolly,Andrea Cornwall,Kate Hawkins Pdf

This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women. Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against women, over-emphasizing these negative aspects has dovetailed with conservative ideologies that associate women's sexualities with danger and fear. On the other hand, the media, the pharmaceutical industry, and pornography more broadly celebrate the pleasures of sex in ways that can be just as oppressive, often implying that only certain types of people - young, heterosexual, able-bodied, HIV-negative - are eligible for sexual pleasure. Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure brings together challenges to these strictures and exclusions from both the South and North of the globe, with examples of activism, advocacy and programming which use pleasure as an entry point. It shows how positive approaches to pleasure and sexuality can enhance equality and empowerment for all.

Author : Mariana Valverde
Publisher : Philadelphia : New Society Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UVA:X001200960

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Sex, Power and Pleasure by Mariana Valverde Pdf

Text lust -- Body and erotic power -- Heterosexuality: contested ground --Lesbianism: a country that has no language --Bisexuality: coping with sexual boundaries -- Pornography: not for men only -- Imagining desire -- Pleasure and ethics.

Author : Carole S. Vance
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Feminism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002499023

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Pleasure and Danger by Carole S. Vance Pdf

Author : Lynne Segal
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781687581

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Straight Sex by Lynne Segal Pdf

Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? Is it possible for women to enjoy sensuality and pleasure with men that does not increase male power? Lynne Segal's unflinching examination of feminist thinking on sexuality over the past twenty-five years tackles these questions head on. Only two decades ago, politically aware women often declared themselves both sexual liberationists and feminists - their right to sexual fulfillment symbolized their right to selfhood. However, the most positive women's writing on female sexuality in recent years has come primarily from the lesbian community. Segal addresses the silence of heterosexual feminists on questions of sex and love and notes the shift toward sexual conservatism. She looks at the trends that followed Sixties radicalism: sex as a subversive activity, the "liberated orgasm," sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, Queer politics, antipornography campaigns, and the rise of the moral right.

Author : Shira Tarrant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317814757

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Gender, Sex, and Politics by Shira Tarrant Pdf

Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century includes twenty-seven chapters organized into five sections: Gender, Sexuality and Social Control; Pornography; Sex and Social Media; Dating, Desire, and the Politics of Hooking Up; and Issues in Sexual Pleasure and Safety. This anthology presents these topics using a point-counterpoint-different point framework. Its arguments and perspectives do not pit writers against each other in a binary pro/con debate format. Instead, a variety of views are juxtaposed to encourage critical thinking and robust conversation. This framework enables readers to assess the strengths and shortcomings of conflicting ideas. The chapters are organized in a way that will challenge cherished beliefs and hone both academic and personal insight. Gender, Sex, and Politics is ideal for sparking debates in intro to women’s and gender studies, sexuality, and gender courses.

Author : Jaclyn Friedman,Jessica Valenti
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786727056

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Yes Means Yes! by Jaclyn Friedman,Jessica Valenti Pdf

This groundbreaking look at rape, edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and Sex Object author Jessica Valenti, dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the "No Means No" model--and the results were the groundbreaking shift to affirmative consent ("Yes Means Yes," as coined by the book) that we know today. With a timely new introduction, refreshed cover, and the timeless contributions of authors from Kate Harding to Jill Filipovic, Yes Means Yes brings to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes has radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished.

Author : Ann Snitow
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781583678121

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Powers of Desire by Ann Snitow Pdf

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?

Author : Tiffiany Howard,Nerses Kopalyan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137363681

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Sex, Power, and Politics by Tiffiany Howard,Nerses Kopalyan Pdf

Sex, Power, and Politics is a deconstruction of the historic femme fatale that serves to highlight the women who occupied perceived subordinate roles and how they were systematically calculating and strategic in the utilization of their femininity and sexuality to engage in politics, influence powerful men, and ultimately shape history.

Author : Tristan Taormino,Celine Parreñas Shimizu,Constance Penley,Mireille Miller-Young
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781558618190

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The Feminist Porn Book by Tristan Taormino,Celine Parreñas Shimizu,Constance Penley,Mireille Miller-Young Pdf

“This thrilling anthology brings together scholars, producers, and fans of feminist pornography to define an emerging movement of gender and sexual visionaries.” —Lisa Duggan The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn—that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world’s most lucrative and growing industries. With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, Lynn Comella, Jane Ward, Ariane Cruz, Kevin Heffernan, and more, The Feminist Porn Book updates the arguments of the porn wars of the 1980s, which sharply divided the women’s movement, and identifies pornography as a form of expression and labor in which women and racial and sexual minorities produce power and pleasure. “Besides being extremely thought-provoking, this must-read collection is accessible to all readers, and the topic inherently makes it engaging and fun.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Riane Eisler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062502834

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Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler Pdf

Riane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence—and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our relations.

Author : Agnieszka Kościańska
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253053107

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Gender, Pleasure, and Violence by Agnieszka Kościańska Pdf

Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists—experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators—not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes. By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.

Author : Ladelle McWhorter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253213258

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Bodies and Pleasures by Ladelle McWhorter Pdf

Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereotypes by which the forces of normalization hold us and judge us. In Bodies and Pleasures, Ladelle McWhorter reads Foucault from an original and personal angle, motivated by the differences this experience has made in her life. At the same time, her analysis advances discussion of key issues in Foucault scholarship: the genealogical critique, the status of the subject and humanism, essentialism versus social construction, and the relationships between identity, community, and political action. Weaving her own experience of coming to grips with her lesbian sexual identity into her readings of Foucault's most recent writings on sexuality and power, McWhorter argues compellingly that Foucault's texts should be read less for the arguments they advance and more for their transformative effect. By exploring bodies and pleasures—gardening, line dancing, or doing philosophy, for example—McWhorter shows that it isn't necessary to conform with socially recognized sexual identities. Bodies and Pleasures takes the reader beyond unexplored norms and imposed identities as it points the way toward a personal politics, ethics, and style that challenges our sexual selves.

Author : Ariane Cruz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479827466

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The Color of Kink by Ariane Cruz Pdf

Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and contradictory negotiation of pain, pleasure, and power for black women. Based on personal interviews conducted with pornography performers, producers, and professional dominatrices, visual and textual analysis, and extensive archival research, Ariane Cruz reveals BDSM and pornography as critical sites from which to rethink the formative links between Black female sexuality and violence. She explores how violence becomes not just a vehicle of pleasure but also a mode of accessing and contesting power. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Cruz argues that BDSM is a productive space from which to consider the complexity and diverseness of black women's sexual practice and the mutability of black female sexuality. Illuminating the cross-pollination of black sexuality and BDSM, The Color of Kink makes a unique contribution to the growing scholarship on racialized sexuality.

Author : Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 082234033X

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The Hypersexuality of Race by Celine Parreñas Shimizu Pdf

A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture.

Author : Breanne Fahs
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438437835

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Performing Sex by Breanne Fahs Pdf

Silver Medalist, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues category Honorable Mention, 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category Although conventional wisdom holds that women in the United States today are more sexually liberated than ever before, a number of startling statistics call into question this perceived victory: over half of all women report having faked orgasms; 45 percent of women find rape fantasies erotic; a growing number of women perform same-sex eroticism for the viewing benefit of men; and recent clinical studies label 40 percent of women as "sexually dysfunctional." Caught between postsexual revolution celebrations of progress and alarmingly regressive new modes of disempowerment, the forty women interviewed in Performing Sex offer a candid and provocative portrait of "liberated" sex in America. Through this nuanced and complex study, Breanne Fahs demonstrates that despite the constant cooptation of the terms of sexual freedom, women's sexual subjectivities—and the ways they continually grapple with shifting definitions of liberation—represent provocative spaces for critical inquiry and personal discovery, ultimately generating novel ways of imagining and reimagining power, pleasure, and resistance.