Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure (Radical Thinkers)

by Lynne Segal

Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Publication

Verso (2015), Edition: Reissue, 392 pages

Description

What is at stake in women's sexual desire for men? Can women express their pleasure in sex without increasing men's power? These questions are central to the author's challenge to the current confusions and evasions - and feminist orthodoxies - surrounding the topic of women's heterosexual pleasure. Over the last quarter of a century, passionate debates about sexuality have raged within the feminist movement. Powerful voices have launched a critique of heterosexuality as the basis of men's exploitation of women. Critically surveying recent literature from sexology, psychoanalysis and queer theory, this book looks at the place of sex in our lives, searches for a positive account of female heterosexuality and suggest ways in which straight women seek social empowerment and pleasure.… (more)

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LibraryThing member adaorhell
you'd think that buying a book from verso the reader would have been educated in the basic structure of lgbtq history and women's liberation movements. apparently not so. took till page 212 to even get to the thesis of the book, and then it never finishes. boring and tiresome and still didn't
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inform any of the straight sex i've ever had. would not recommend.
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Original language

English

Physical description

392 p.; 5.18 inches

ISBN

1781687560 / 9781781687567

Local notes

sex/sexuality

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