Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction by Veronique Mottier

Author:Veronique Mottier [Mottier, Veronique]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780199298020
Amazon: 0199298025
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

The fights between ‘sex-positive’ and anti-prostitution/pornography feminists, described as the feminist ‘sex wars’ by Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter, led to deep and permanent splits within feminism from the 1980s. One of the reasons for this is that the conflicts did not only concern differences about political strategies regarding commercial sex, but also involved fundamentally different ways of thinking about sexuality and its links to relations of power between the genders. In a context in which the women’s movement came to be criticized by lesbians for privileging heterosexual concerns, by working-class women for reflecting middle-class interests, and by women of colour for being implicitly white, post-structuralist, postcolonial, and postmodern theories of gender emerged from the 1980s that rejected perceived simplistic binary oppositions between men-the-oppressors and women-the-passive-victims as politically mobilizing but conceptually unhelpful.

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