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Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality

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  1. Agency, Responsibility, and the Limits of Sexual Consent.Caleb Ward - 2020 - Dissertation, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    In both popular and scholarly discussions, sexual consent is gaining traction as the central moral consideration in how people should treat one another in sexual encounters. However, while the concept of consent has been indispensable to oppose many forms of sexual violence, consent-based sexual ethics struggle to account for the phenomenological complexity of sexual intimacy and the social and structural pressures that often surround sexual communication and behavior. Feminist structural critique and social research on the prevalence of violation even within (...)
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  • Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pizan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies.M. Bella Mirabella - 1999 - European Journal of Women's Studies 6 (1):9-20.
    The idea of self-fashioning that Stephen Greenblatt presents in his book Renaissance Self-Fashioning can be very useful in an effort to understand Christine de Pizan's work. Specifically, a reading of The Treasure of the City of Ladies or The Book of the Three Virtues in the light of self-fashioning may help explain the book's intent. In writing The Treasure, Christine is often criticized for what appears to be a departure from her vigorous defense of women presented in The City of (...)
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  • Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/gender/sexuality System.Kristen Schilt & Laurel Westbrook - 2014 - Gender and Society 28 (1):32-57.
    This article explores “determining gender,” the umbrella term for social practices of placing others in gender categories. We draw on three case studies showcasing moments of conflict over who counts as a man and who counts as a woman: public debates over the expansion of transgender employment rights, policies determining eligibility of transgender people for competitive sports, and proposals to remove the genital surgery requirement for a change of sex marker on birth certificates. We show that criteria for determining gender (...)
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  • Voyages of the Valkyries: Recent Lesbian Pornographic Writing.Sara Dunn - 1990 - Feminist Review 34 (1):161-170.
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  • Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference. [REVIEW]Anna Marie Smith - 1991 - Feminist Review 38 (1):109-112.
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  • Carceral politics as gender justice? The “traffic in women” and neoliberal circuits of crime, sex, and rights.Elizabeth Bernstein - 2012 - Theory and Society 41 (3):233-259.
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  • Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work.Kathleen Ennis - unknown
    One of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later (...)
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  • The Fracturing of LGBT Identities under Neoliberal Capitalism.Peter Drucker - 2011 - Historical Materialism 19 (4):3-32.
    Historians have linked the emergence of contemporary lesbian/gay identities to the development of capitalism. A materialist approach should also look atdifferentforms of sexual identity, and their connections with specific phases of capitalist development. Marxist long-wave theory can help us understand how the decline of Fordism contributed to shifts in LGBT identities, speeding the consolidation of gay identity while fostering the rise of alternative sexual identities. These alternative identities, sometimes defined as ‘queer’, characterised by sexual practices that are still stigmatised, by (...)
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  • A Critique of Normative Heterosexuality: Identity, Embodiment, and Sexual Difference in Beauvoir and Irigaray.Ofelia Schutte - 1997 - Hypatia 12 (1):40 - 62.
    The distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality does not allow for sufficient attention to be given to the question of non-normative heterosexualities. This paper develops a feminist critique of normative sexuality, focusing on alternative readings of sex and/or gender offered by Beauvoir and Irigaray. Despite their differences, both accounts contribute significantly to dismantling the lure of normative sexuality in heterosexual relations-a dismantling necessary to the construction of a feminist social and political order.
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  • The Labor of Pleasure: How Perceptions of Emotional Labor Impact Women's Enjoyment of Pornography.Z. Fareen Parvez - 2006 - Gender and Society 20 (5):605-631.
    Propornography and antipornography literatures have failed to elucidate the complexity of women's consumption of pornography. This article submits that a reconstructed theory of emotional labor, developed from the perspective of the consumer, explains some of women's ambivalence toward pornography. Findings are based on interviews with 30 women who enjoy porn films. The women's ambivalence reflected their perception of emotional labor in pornographic production. Although they found pornography arousing, they faced uncertainty over the authenticity of the porn actresses' pleasure. Furthermore, they (...)
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  • Sexual freedom and sexual constraint:: The paradox for single women in liaisons with married men.Laurel Richardson - 1988 - Gender and Society 2 (3):368-384.
    Feminist thought characterizes women's sexuality as both a source of freedom and a source of exploitation. Central to the feminist research agenda on women's sexuality is the analysis of strategies that women use to increase their sexual autonomy and reduce their sexual constraints. One such strategy is the sexual liaison between single women and married men. In this article, liaisons between single women and married men are examined from the perspective of the single woman. Data come from intensive interviews with (...)
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  • Headscarves and Porno-Chic: Disciplining Girls' Bodies in the European Multicultural Society.Liesbet van Zoonen & Linda Duits - 2006 - European Journal of Women's Studies 13 (2):103-117.
    This article addresses girls' dress, which has become controversial, especially in contemporary multicultural Europe. Using the Dutch public debate about the headscarf, belly shirts, visible G-strings, and other forms of ‘porno-chic’, the authors show that these seemingly separate debates are held together by the regulation of female sexuality. Through their analysis of the headscarves and porno-chic debate, the authors argue that women's sexuality and girls' bodies in particular have become the metonymic location for many a contemporary social dilemma: of the (...)
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  • Writing trash: Truth and the sexual outlaw’s reinvention of lesbian identity.Kathleen Kennedy - 2000 - Feminist Theory 1 (2):151-172.
    This article focuses on Dorothy Allison’s novel Trashto map how truth functions in the so-called ‘sexual outlaw’s’ efforts to establish a legitimate subject position within lesbian feminism. It suggests that truth is the most valued commodity in establishing that position regardless of one’s position(s) as a sexual outlaw. Sexual outlaws use truth to move from arguing that their sexuality is one of many legitimate expressions of desire to contending that they have developed a more truthful representation of the lesbian than (...)
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  • Sex Positive: Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Transgression.Elisa Glick - 2000 - Feminist Review 64 (1):19-45.
    From the feminist ‘sex wars’ of the 1980s to the queer theory and politics of the 1990s, debates about the politics of sexuality have been at the forefront of contemporary theoretical, social, and political demands. This article seeks to intervene in these debates by challenging the terms through which they have been defined. Investigating the importance of ‘sex positivity’ and transgression as conceptual features of feminist and queer discourses, this essay calls for a new focus on the political and material (...)
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  • Emotional clashes and female public nudity in Thailand.Suchada Thaweesit - 2016 - Diogenes 63 (1-2):89-101.
    This article revisits cultural controversies over female public nudity in Thai society. It uses Songkran’s topless dancing in 2011 and a bare-breast painting performance on the ‘Thailand’s Got Talent Show’ in 2012 to explore cultural and emotional clashes in Thailand’s 21st century. It shows that these two cases of public female nudity drew deep and divergent emotional responses from different groups in Thai society. These cases clearly revealed a clash in viewpoints with regard to Thai notions of feminine respectability associated (...)
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  • International Criminal Law as a Site for Enhancing Women’s Rights? Challenges, Possibilities, Strategies.Kiran Kaur Grewal - 2015 - Feminist Legal Studies 23 (2):149-165.
    Many scholars and activists have argued that the International Criminal Court holds potential for advancing the rights of women and girls, leading to extensive feminist engagement with and investment in the Court. As the ICC enters its second decade of existence, this article offers a reflection on both the possibilities and the challenges facing feminists. Can the international criminal law really offer a site for enhancing the rights of women? And if so, how? To explore these questions I focus on (...)
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  • Toward a Queer Ecofeminism.Greta Gaard - 1997 - Hypatia 12 (1):114-137.
    Although many ecofeminists acknowledge heterosexism as a problem, a systematic exploration of the potential intersections of ecofeminist and queer theories has yet to be made. By interrogating social constructions of the "natural," the various uses of Christianity as a logic of domination, and the rhetoric of colonialism, this essay finds those theoretical intersections and argues for the importance of developing a queer ecofeminism.
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  • The Rights and Wrongs of Prostitution.Julia O'Connell Davidson - 2002 - Hypatia 17 (2):84-98.
    This essay critically explores contemporary Euro-American feminist debate on prostitution. It argues that to develop analyses relevant to the experience of more than just a small minority of “First World” women, those who are concerned with prostitution as a form of work need to look beyond liberal discourse on property and contractual consent for ways of conceptualizing the rights and wrongs of “sex work.”.
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  • “Keeping The Dancers In Check”: The Gendered Organization of Stripping Work in The Lion's Den.Kim Price - 2008 - Gender and Society 22 (3):367-389.
    Strip clubs have rarely been analyzed in terms of their gendered organization. Instead, the literature on stripping emphasizes interaction-based perspectives that focus on strippers, patrons, and broader macro-structural trends. Although interaction-based perspectives are valuable, they often neglect to consider the context in which these interactions take place, the strip club itself. Such studies also tend to neglect the larger cast of club characters who own, manage, and work. This study explores workplace dynamics in The Lion's Den, a club featuring nude (...)
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  • Individualized femininity and feminist politics of choice.Shelley Budgeon - 2015 - European Journal of Women's Studies 22 (3):303-318.
    Women’s right to exercise choice has been one of feminism’s central political claims. Where second wave feminism focused on the constraints women faced in making free choices, choice feminism more recently reorients feminist politics with a call for recognition of the choices women are actually making. From this perspective the role of feminism is to validate women’s choices without passing judgement. This article analyses this shift in orientation by locating women’s choices within a late modern gender order in which the (...)
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  • The politics of love: Women's liberation and feeling differently.Victoria Hesford - 2009 - Feminist Theory 10 (1):5-33.
    Contemporary queer interrogations of heteronormativity are fraught with the traces of feminist contestations of the intimate domains of women's `ordinary' lives during the era of the women's liberation movement. These traces remain enigmatic within contemporary theories of public affect and emotion rather than incorporated into their critiques of the present political moment. This essay argues that the work of the early women's liberationists — their attempts to bring the personal into view as the dense, affect laden, site of social reproduction (...)
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  • There's No Place Like Home: On the Place of Identity in Feminist Politics.Mary Louise Adams - 1989 - Feminist Review 31 (1):22-33.
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  • Aids: Lessons from the Gay Community.Cindy Patton - 1988 - Feminist Review 30 (1):105-111.
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  • Feminism for sale: Case study of a pro-sex feminist business.Meika Loe - 1999 - Gender and Society 13 (6):705-732.
    This article is a case study of a woman-owned and-operated sexual products business, conceived in the midst of a fragmenting women's movement in 1977. The article tracks the evolution of pro-sex feminist ideology within this business during the past 22 years. Whereas most feminist organizations research focuses on nonprofit organizations and their relationship to the state, this study focuses on a political organization that depends on profits for survival. The voices in this study reveal the complexities of running an “alternative” (...)
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  • Powerful emotions: symbolic power and the (productive and punitive) force of collective feeling. [REVIEW]Dawne Moon - 2013 - Theory and Society 42 (3):261-294.
    This article argues that emotions can be a medium of social power. Using qualitative interview material from American Jews discussing anti-Semitism and its relationship to contemporary politics, it engages recent scholarship on emotions and political contention and shows how emotions make effective the various forms of symbolic exclusion by which group members exercise what Bourdieu calls symbolic power. It also explores the emotional connections to group membership by which some “excluded” members can engage in symbolic struggle over “the principles of (...)
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  • Feminist perspectives on sex markets.Laurie Shrage - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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  • Thinking in dark times: Assessing the transdisciplinary legacies of Zygmunt Bauman.Griselda Pollock & Mark Davis - 2020 - Thesis Eleven 156 (1):3-9.
    In 2018, the Bauman Institute and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History, both based at the University of Leeds, initiated a transdisciplinary programme to assess the legacies of Zygmunt Bauman, whose prolific writings we felt to be profoundly relevant to the multiple challenges of the 21st century. In this special issue of Thesis Eleven, we are marking just over three years since the death of Zygmunt Bauman by bringing together some of the contributions to that programme in order (...)
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  • To Buy or Not to Buy? Vulnerability and the Criminalisation of Commercial BDSM.Sharon Cowan - 2012 - Feminist Legal Studies 20 (3):263-279.
    This paper examines the interaction of law and policy-making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that amounts to actual bodily harm is unlawful in the UK, and calls to decriminalise it are often met with fears that participants will be left vulnerable to abuse. Where women sell BDSM sex, even more complex questions of choice, exploitation, (...)
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  • Revitalizing feminist politics of solidarity in the age of anti-genderism.Julian Honkasalo - 2022 - European Journal of Women's Studies 29 (1_suppl):139S-150S.
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  • Book Review: Women and Disability. [REVIEW]Nasa Begum - 1992 - Feminist Review 40 (1):125-127.
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  • Constructing Eroticized Latinidad: Negotiating Profitability in the Stripping Industry.Cristina Khan - 2019 - Gender and Society 33 (5):702-721.
    Through the analysis of an 18-month ethnography at an exotic dance club located in the Northeastern United States, I uncover how Latina exotic dancers manage their participation in exotic dance by deploying constructions of Latinidad as embodied cues. I focus on Playpen’s weekly event, “Latina Night,” to demonstrate how racialized, sexualized, and gendered constructs relative to Latinidad are produced and regulated in this exotic dance setting. Study participants draw on embodied markers to negotiate how their bodies are read. Those markers (...)
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  • (1 other version)Upsetting an Applecart: Difference, Desire and Lesbian Sadomasochism.Sue O'Sullivan & Susan Ardill - 1986 - Feminist Review 23 (1):31-57.
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  • Reviews. [REVIEW][author unknown] - 2001 - Feminist Review 68 (1):181-213.
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