Straight sex : rethinking the politics of pleasure / Lynne Segal.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Segal, Lynne
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
Subjects:	Sex. Heterosexuality > United States. Women > United States > Sexual behavior.

Table of Contents:

1. My generation: sex as subversive. Saying yes to sex. Out of apathy, into the counter-culture. Saying no to sexism
2. The liberated orgasm? feminists fall out. The clitoral truth. Autonomy and control. Sex and love. Women loving women. Sleeping with the enemy. Wars without end
3. The coital imperative: sexology and sex research. Defining nature: sex as energy. Early battles between the sexes. From difference to sameness. Sex therapy regimes. Feminist sex research
4. Laws of desire: psychoanalytic perspectives and disputes. Sexual drives, psychic realities. Family romances and sexual difference. Phallic prescriptions, penile practices. Women's desire and the bonds of love. Promises and evasions in psychoanalysis
5. Gay and lesbian challenges: transgression and recuperation. Coming out, fighting back. Any woman can: reconstructing the lesbian. Following Foucault: resisting homosexual identity. Who's a pervert?: queer theory and gender sabotage.

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