Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Sexual Skirmishes and Feminist Factions: Twenty-Five Years of Debate on Women and Sexuality 1
5. PART ONE. ESSENTIALISM AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
6. 1.1 SEXUALITY 35
7. 1.2 SCENES OF AN INDELICATE CHARACTER. The Medical Treatment of Victorian Women 40
8. 1.3 WOMEN'S FRIENDSHIPS AND LESBIANISM 46
9. 1.4 BIOLOGICAL SUPERIORITY. The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea 57
10. 1.5 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF FEMALE SEXUALITY 62
11. 1.6 FEMININE SEXUALITY 74
12. 1.7 THIS SEX WHICH IS NOT ONE 79
13. 1.8 GENDER DIFFERENCE AND THE PRODUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY 84
14. 1.9 ANIMALS AND BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM 101
15. PART TWO. AFFIRMING AND QUESTIONING SEXUAL CATEGORIES
16. 2.1 THE MYTH OF THE VAGINAL ORGASM 111
17. 2.2 '"DON'T DIE OF IGNORANCE." I NEARLY DIED OF EMBARRASSMENT'. Condoms in Context 117
18. 2.3 COMPULSORY HETEROSEXUALITY AND LESBIAN EXISTENCE 130
19. 2.4 THE STRAIGHT MIND 144
20. 2.5 HATING MASCULINITY NOT MEN 150
21. 2.6 LESBIANISM. An Act of Resistance 155
22. 2.7 IMITATION AND GENDER INSUBORDINATION 162
23. 2.8 QUEER THEORRHEA (AND WHAT IT MIGHT MEAN FOR FEMINISTS) 166
24. 2.9 SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN: A POLITICS OF HETEROSEXUALITY 172
25. 2.10 HETEROSEXUALITY, POWER AND PLEASURE 175
26. PART THREE. POWER AND PLEASURE
27. 3.1 FEMINISM, MARXISM, METHOD AND THE STATE An Agenda for Theory 182
28. 3.2 IT'S EVERYWHERE'. Sexual Violence as a Continuum 191
29. 3.3 THE MURDERER AS MISOGYNIST? 207
30. 3.4 CONTINUED DEVALUATION OF BLACK WOMANHOOD 216
31. 3.5 DESIRE FOR THE FUTURE. Radical Hope in Passion and Pleasure 224
32. 3.6 FEMINISM AND SADOMASOCHISM 230
33. 3.7 SADOMASOCHISM 238
34. 3.8 SEX AFTER AIDS 245
35. 3.9 PRESSURED PLEASURE. Young Women and the Negotiation of Sexual Boundaries 248
36. 3.10 BODIES-PLEASURES-POWERS 263
37. 3.11 CONSTRUCTING LESBIAN SEXUALITIES 276
38. PART FOUR. COMMERCIAL SEX
39. 4.1 THE POLITICS OF PROSTITUTION 288
40. 4.2 PORNOGRAPHY 297
41. 4.3 SUBJECTS, OBJECTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES 300
42. 4.4 BLACK WOMEN AND THE SEX/GENDER HIERARCHY 307
43. 4.5 WANKING IN CYBERSPACE. The Development of Computer Porn 314
44. 4.6 ON THE QUESTION OF PORNOGRAPHY AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Moving Beyond Cause and Effect 321
45. 4.7 LIBERALISM AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF OPPRESSION 333
46. 4.8 PROSTITUTION. A Difficult Issue for Feminists 342
47. 4.9 PROSTITUTES AND THEIR CLIENTS 358
48. 4.10 THE PRAED STREET PROJECT. A Cohort of Prostitute Women in London 367
49. 4.11 SERVING THE TOURIST MARKET. Female Labour in International Tourism 373
50. COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 379
51. INDEX OF NAMES 383
52. INDEX OF SUBJECTS 385