Women Sexuality And The Political Power Of Pleasure

Author : Susie Jolly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780325754
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure written by Susie Jolly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women. Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against women, over-emphasizing these negative aspects has dovetailed with conservative ideologies that associate women's sexualities with danger and fear. On the other hand, the media, the pharmaceutical industry, and pornography more broadly celebrate the pleasures of sex in ways that can be just as oppressive, often implying that only certain types of people - young, heterosexual, able-bodied, HIV-negative - are eligible for sexual pleasure. Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure brings together challenges to these strictures and exclusions from both the South and North of the globe, with examples of activism, advocacy and programming which use pleasure as an entry point. It shows how positive approaches to pleasure and sexuality can enhance equality and empowerment for all.

Author : Louisa Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135085633
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education written by Louisa Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years. This book argues that there has been a lack of scrutiny over the political motivations that underpin research supportive of pleasure and desire within comprehensive sexuality education. In this volume, key researchers in the field consider how discourses related to pleasure and desire have been taken up internationally. They argue that sexuality education is clearly shaped by specific cultural and political contexts, and examine how these contexts have shaped the development of pleasure’s inclusion in such programs. Via such discussions, this volume incites a re-configuration of thought regarding sexuality education’s approach to pleasure and desire.

Author : Carole S. Vance
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pleasure and Danger written by Carole S. Vance and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good deal of discussion of homosexuality, male and female.--P. Thorslev.

Author : Lynne Segal
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781687587
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Straight Sex written by Lynne Segal and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? Is it possible for women to enjoy sensuality and pleasure with men that does not increase male power? Lynne Segal's unflinching examination of feminist thinking on sexuality over the past twenty-five years tackles these questions head on. Only two decades ago, politically aware women often declared themselves both sexual liberationists and feminists - their right to sexual fulfillment symbolized their right to selfhood. However, the most positive women's writing on female sexuality in recent years has come primarily from the lesbian community. Segal addresses the silence of heterosexual feminists on questions of sex and love and notes the shift toward sexual conservatism. She looks at the trends that followed Sixties radicalism: sex as a subversive activity, the "liberated orgasm," sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, Queer politics, antipornography campaigns, and the rise of the moral right.

Author : Mariana Valverde
Publisher : Philadelphia : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Power and Pleasure written by Mariana Valverde and published by Philadelphia : New Society Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text lust -- Body and erotic power -- Heterosexuality: contested ground --Lesbianism: a country that has no language --Bisexuality: coping with sexual boundaries -- Pornography: not for men only -- Imagining desire -- Pleasure and ethics.

Author : Riane Eisler
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062030752
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Pleasure written by Riane Eisler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence—and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our relations.

Author : Agnieszka Kościańska
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253053102
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence written by Agnieszka Kościańska and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists—experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators—not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes. By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.

Author : Ladelle McWhorter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213259
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies and Pleasures written by Ladelle McWhorter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereotypes by which the forces of normalization hold us and judge us. In Bodies and Pleasures, Ladelle McWhorter reads Foucault from an original and personal angle, motivated by the differences this experience has made in her life. At the same time, her analysis advances discussion of key issues in Foucault scholarship: the genealogical critique, the status of the subject and humanism, essentialism versus social construction, and the relationships between identity, community, and political action. Weaving her own experience of coming to grips with her lesbian sexual identity into her readings of Foucault's most recent writings on sexuality and power, McWhorter argues compellingly that Foucault's texts should be read less for the arguments they advance and more for their transformative effect. By exploring bodies and pleasures—gardening, line dancing, or doing philosophy, for example—McWhorter shows that it isn't necessary to conform with socially recognized sexual identities. Bodies and Pleasures takes the reader beyond unexplored norms and imposed identities as it points the way toward a personal politics, ethics, and style that challenges our sexual selves.

Author : Jaclyn Friedman
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 158005899X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yes Means Yes! written by Jaclyn Friedman and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the "No Means No" model--and the result was the groundbreaking shift to today's affirmative consent model ("Yes Means Yes," as coined by this book). With a timely new introduction, refreshed cover, and the timeless contributions of authors from Kate Harding to Jill Filipovic, Yes Means Yes brings to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes has radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished.

Author : Ann Snitow
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583678123
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powers of Desire written by Ann Snitow and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative anthology brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists. They are concerned not only with current sexual issues-abortion, pornography, reproductive and gay rights-but they also raise a host of new issues and questions: How, and in what ways, is sexuality political? Is the struggle for sexual freedom a complement to other struggles for liberation, or will it detract from them? Has the sexual revolution diminished or enriched the lives of women?