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    Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure

    By Lynne Segal

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    Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? This is the central question of Straight Sex, Lynne Segal’s account of twentyfive years of feminist thinking on sexuality. Covering the thought of sixties-era sexual liberationists, alongside the ensuing passionate debates over sex and love within feminist and lesbian communities, Segal covers certain shifts toward greater sexual conservatism in the eighties. Straight Sex examines an array of issues, including sex as a subversive activity, the “liberated orgasm,” sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, queer politics, anti-pornography campaigns and the rise of the moral right.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateMar 3, 2015
    ISBN9781781687574
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      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 inform any of the straight sex i've ever had. would not recommend.