Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture - Softcover

Duggan, Lisa; Hunter, Nan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415910374 ISBN 13: 9780415910378

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

Sex Wars is a collection of writings by Duggan and Hunter that brings together the best of the important work they have done on sexual politics in America over the past decade. Sex Wars traces the development of this politics and its deployment in three different arenas--speech and representation, legal regulation, and scholarship.

About this title

About the Author

Lisa Duggan is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at New York University. She was founding member of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force, and has written widely on sexual politics.
Nan D. Hunter is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. 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.

Review

..."willingness to probe rather than pronounce is part of the collection's strength, as is the excitement of a taking up a good fight.... they provide concrete suggestions for action and fresh thinking."
-"The Women's Review of Books
"With refreshing authority, passion, wit, clarity and outspokenness, these articles seek to encourage dialog about...such complex and provocative issues as the call for regulation/censorship of pornography by MacKinnon and Dworkin, the effects of Bowers v. Hardwick, and the distinctions between queer theory and lesbian and gay studies."
-"Library Journal
"This historic compilation is an important contribution to the field of sexual politics."
-"Library Journal
"Duggan and Hunter have been important voices in the sex wars. Their activism, dedication, and vision are amply demonstrated in the writings collected here. These indespensible documents are scholarly, passionate, sobering, and contain manypointed lessons that still scream for assimilation by mainstream feminism and other progressive constituencies."
-Gayle Rubin, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Sex Wars is an invaluable contribution to the current debate on feminism and sex. Its essays reveal with cogent and dismaying clarity the repressive logic that links anti-pornography feminism with religious fundamentalism and homophobic paranoia. Feminists who have been struggling to combat this all-too-prevalent logic will be grateful for this new and powerful weapon in our own sex war' arsenal."
-Ellen Willis

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415910374
• ISBN 13: 9780415910378
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288