Sex Positives?: Cultural Politics of Dissident Sexualities

by Carol Siegel and Thomas Foster

Book Overview

The feminist pornography debates are centered around the opposition between pro-censorship factions and the pro-sex radicals or sex positives. But what exactly is the relationship between these debates and postmodern theories of reading and performativity? What happens to these debates when they are placed in the context of colonial or U.S. racial histories? What is the history behind today's sexual radicalism? How radical is it? In the first section...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726631
• ISBN13: 9780814726631
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"