Sex Postives?

Cultural Politics of Dissident Sexualities

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by Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel and Ellen E. Berry

New York University Press

Due/Published January 1997, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 0814726631

In the first section of this collection, Nicola Pitchford, Naomi Morgenstern, Victoria L. Smith, and Gabrielle N. Dean focus on the recent "Sex Wars" within U.S. feminism, especially within lesbian culture. Elissa J. Rashkin, Gaurav Desai, and James Smalls then broaden the terms of these debates to include sexualized racial and colonial representations from Chicana, African, and African American perspectives. Lastly, Sander L. Gilman, Laura Ciolkowski, and Laura Frost explore a variety of historical contexts for understanding contemporary forms of sexual representation and repression of such representations.