Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality
by Ann Snitow (Editor), Christine Stansell (Editor), Sharon Thompson (Editor)
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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 show more the lives of women? show lessTags
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This is a collection of essays ranging from historical analysis to political commentary. Excellent academic, feminist collection about sex and sexuality.
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Ann Barr Snitow (1943-2019) was a much-loved feminist writer, gifted organizer, teacher, and co-instigator of groundbreaking feminist organizations including No More Nice Girls, New York Radical Feminists, and the Network of East-West Women. As an academic, she twice cofounded gender studies programs at The New School, where she taught for three show more decades. show less
Christine Stansell, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author of "City of Women: Sex & Class in New York City, 1789-1860". Her essays & reviews appear regularly in The New Republic & The London Review of Books. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, LGBTQ+, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 306.7 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations
- LCC
- HQ21 .P68 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Sexual behavior and attitudes. Sexuality
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- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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