Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (10th Anniversary Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415978742 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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With refreshing authority, passion, wit, clarity, and outspokenness, these articles, which appear in book form for the first time, seek to encourage dialog about, as they offer cogent feminist analysis of, such complex and provocative issues as the call for regulation/censorship of pornography by Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, the effects of Bowers v. . Hardwick (in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia's sodomy laws), the distinctions between queer theory and lesbian and gay studies, and the implications of the Sharon Kowalski/Karen Thompson case (Thompson fought Kowalski's parents unsuccessfully for the guardianship of her comatose lover). Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. This historic compilation is an important contribution to the field of sexual politics.?James E. From Library Journal The political and cultural battles over issues of sexuality that have affected the nation since the mid
Jeffery Mingo said Represent, Feminist Lesbian Academics!. Professor Duggan taught a gay studies course that I took at Brown University and she was so awesome. I read this book about two years after taking that class. I think the times that cultural studies scholars and legal scholars get together are pretty rare, so this is an excellent example of collaborative potential. This book asks and answers many questions. For example, why did most feminist historians not join anti-porn movements? The discussi
This book is a collection of essays written during the 1980s and 1990s, generated as parts of other, larger activist efforts going on at the time. Yet the issues (and essays) are still relevant today. Texas, for example).. The anniversary edition contains a new chapter dealing with the changes in the law since the book's publication (Lawrence v. 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
Hunter is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. She was founding member of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force, and has written widely on sexual politics.Nan D. She is a widely recognized authority on health law issues such as productive rights, AIDS, and consumer protection. She is a former lawyer for the ACLU, where she was a founding director of Projects on Lesbian and Gay Rights and AIDS. . Lisa Duggan is Associate Professor o