Sex Wars

Sex Wars examines the bitter cultural and politcal battles over sexuality that have roiled the nation over the last quarter of a century. Since the 1995 publication of the original Sex Wars, the political landscape has altered significantly. Yet the issues between feminism, activism, politics, and the law are still relevant today.

A collection of essays written during the 1980s and 1990s, this book is generated as parts of other, larger activist efforts going on at the time. It traces the progress of the conversations between different activist groups, creating a bridge between feminists, gay activists, those in politics, and those in the law.

Autorentext

Lisa Duggan is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at New York University. She was founding member of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force, and has written widely on sexual politics.

Nan D. Hunter is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. She is a widely recognized authority on health law issues such as productive rights, AIDS, and consumer protection. She is a former lawyer for the ACLU, where she was a founding director of Projects on Lesbian and Gay Rights and AIDS.

Klappentext

This book is a collection of essays written during the 1980s and 1990s, generated as parts of other, larger activist efforts going on at the time. Read together, the essays trace the progress of the conversations between different activist groups, and between the authors of the pieces, Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter, creating a bridge between feminists, gay activists, those in politics, and those in the law.

Since the 1995 publication of Sex Wars, the political landscape has altered significantly. Yet the issues (and essays) are still relevant today. The anniversary edition contains a new chapter dealing with the changes in the law since the book's publication (Lawrence v. Texas, for example).

Zusammenfassung
Sex Wars examines the bitter cultural and politcal battles over sexuality that have roiled the nation over the last quarter of a century. Since the 1995 publication of the original Sex Wars, the political landscape has altered significantly. Yet the issues between feminism, activism, politics, and the law are still relevant today.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1: Contextualizing the Sexuality Debates; 2: Censorship in the Name of Feminism; I: Sexual Dissent and Representation; 3: False Promises; 4: Feminist Historians and Antipornography Campaigns; 5: Sex Panics; 6: Banned in the U.S.A.; II: Sexual Dissent and the Law; 7: Life After Hardwick; 8: Sexual Dissent and the Family; 9: Marriage, Law and Gender; 10: Identity, Speech and Equality; 11: History's Gay Ghetto; III: Sexual Dissent, Activism and the Academy; 12: Making It Perfectly Queer; 13: Scholars and Sense; 14: Queering the State; 15: The Discipline Problem; 16: Lawrence v. Texas as Law and Culture; IV: Sexual Dissent in the New Millennium; 17: Crossing the Line; 18: Holy Matrimony!; 19: Beyond Gay Marriage