Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political CultureThis 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. 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. Yet the issues (and essays) are still relevant today. The anniversary edition contains a new chapter dealing with the changes in the law since the book's publication (Lawrence v. Texas, for example). |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 Contextualizing the Sexuality Debates | 15 |
Chapter 2 Censorship in the Name of Feminism | 29 |
Section I Sexual Dissent and Representation | 41 |
Chapter 3 False Promises | 43 |
Chapter 4 Feminist Historians and Antipornography Campaigns | 65 |
Chapter 5 Sex Panics | 71 |
Chapter 6 Banned in the USA | 77 |
Section III Sexual Dissent Activism and the Academy | 147 |
Chapter 12 Making It Perfectly Queer | 149 |
Chapter 13 Scholars and Sense | 165 |
Chapter 14 Queering the State | 171 |
Chapter 15 The Discipline Problem | 185 |
Section IV Sexual Dissent in the New Millennium | 211 |
Chapter 18 Holy Matrimony | 221 |
Chapter 19 Beyond Gay Marriage | 231 |