Feminism and Sexuality

Part 1 Essentialism verus social construction: from "Uneven Developments", Mary Poovey; from "The Spinster and her Enemies", Sheila Jeffreys; from "Feminine Sexuality", Jacqueline Rose; "This Sex Which is Not One", Luce Irigaray; from "The Social Construction of Female Sexuality", Stevi Jackson; from "The Traffic in Women and Thinking Sex - notes for a radical theory of sexuality", Gayle Rubin; "Gender Difference and the Production of Subjectivity", Wendy Hollway; "Biological Superiority - the world's most dangerous and deadly idea", Andrea Dworkin; "Social Construction Theory - problems in the history of sexuality", Carol Vance. Part 2 Affirming and questioning sexual categories: "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm", Anne Koedt; from "Don't Die of Ignorance, I nearly Died of Embarrassment", Janet Holland; "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence", Adrienne Rich; "Lesbianism - an act of resistance", Cheryl Clarke; "The Straight Mind", Monique Wittig; "Hating Masculinity Not Men", Marie-Jo Dhavernas; "Imitation and Gender Subordination", Judith Butler; "Queer Theory and Queer Politics", Katie Grant. Part 3 Power and pleasure: "Marxism, Feminism, Method and the State", Catherine MacKinnon; from "Surviving Sexual Violence", Liz Kelly; from "The Lust to Kill", Debbie Cameron; from "Ain't I a Woman", Bell Hooks; "Desire for the Future - radical hope in passion and pleasure", Amber Hollibaugh; "Feminism and Sadomasochism", Pat Califia; from "Anti-Climax - A Feminist Critique of the Sexual Revolution", Sheila Jeffreys; "Sex after AIDS", Ros Coward; from "Pressured Pleasure", Holland et al; "Bodies-Pleasures-Powers", Linda Singer; "Lesbian Sexualities", Diane Richardson. Part 4 Commercial sex: "The Politics of Prostitution", Judith Walkowitz; from "Pornography", Andrea Dworkin; from "The Pornography of Representation", Susanne Kappeller; from "Black Feminist Thought", Patricia Collins; various extracts from "Feminists Against Censorship"; "On the Question of Pornography and Sexual Violence", Debbie Cameron and Liz Frazer; "Prostitution - a difficult issue for feminists", Priscilla Alexander; from "Backstreets - Prostitution, Love and Money", C. Hoigard and Liv Finstad; from "Sex, Money and Morality - Prostitution and Tourism in SE Asia", Thanh-Dan Truong; "The Praed Street Project - a cohort of prostitute women in London", Sophie Day and Helen Ward.