The Sexuality Papers: Male Sexuality and the Social Control of Women (Explorations in Feminism)

Self-Help

Kay, Leslie

Jeffreys, Sheila

Coveney, Lal

Jackson, Margaret

Mahony, Pa

Hutchinson Educational

The Sexuality Papers (Routledge Library Editions: History of Sexuality)

Originally published in 1984. The history of sex in the last 100 years has usually been written as a story of progress from repression to sexual liberation. This book argues that the reverse is true, demonstrating that the 'sexual revolution' came as a backlash to a women's movement which challenged men's sexual abuse and tried to reconstruct male sexuality in women's interest. At first it looks at&nbsp;those groups at the turn of the twentieth century who campaigned to challenge prevailing ideas about sexual behaviour. It moves on to review the work of the most influential sexologists Ellis, Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, and then presents a critical analysis of the sex magazine Forum.

The Sexuality Papers: Male Sexuality and the Social Control of Women (Routledge Library Editions: History of Sexuality)

Politics & Social Sciences

Mahony, Pat

Sociology

Routledge

The Sexuality Debates (Women's Source Library)

First published in 1987. From the 1870's to the 1920's, feminists actively campaigned against men's sexual abuse of women. This collection brings together the major articles which fuelled the feminist campaigns and helped to bring about significant reforms.

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Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (Women and Psychology)

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but some ‘new’ feminists argue that beauty practices are no longer oppressive now that women can ‘choose’ them. However, in the last two decades the brutality of western beauty practices seems to have become much more severe, requiring the breaking of skin, spilling of blood and rearrangement or amputation of body parts. Beauty and Misogyny seeks to make sense of why beauty practices are not only just as persistent, but in many ways more extreme. It examines the pervasive use of makeup, the misogyny of fashion and high-heeled shoes, and looks at the role of pornography in the creation of increasingly popular beauty practices such as breast implants, genital waxing and surgical alteration of the labia. It looks at the cosmetic surgery and body piercing/cutting industries as being forms of self-mutilation by proxy, in which the surgeons and piercers serve as proxies to harm women’s bodies, and concludes by considering how a culture of resistance to these practices can be created. This essential work will appeal to students and teachers of feminist psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist sociology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to anyone with an interest in feminism, women and beauty, and women’s health.

Parenting & Relationships

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

The Industrial Vagina (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.  The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable legitimate market sectors that are being legalised and decriminalised by governments. Sheila Jeffreys demonstrates how prostitution has been globalized through an examination of:    the growth of pornography and its new global reach    the boom in adult shops, strip clubs and escort agencies    military prostitution and sexual violence in war                                                                              marriage and the mail order bride industry    the rise in sex tourism and trafficking in women.                                          She argues that through these practices women’s subordination has been outsourced and that states that legalise this industry are acting as pimps, enabling male buyers in countries in which women’s equality threatens male dominance, to buy access to the bodies of women from poor countries who are paid for their sexual subservience.  This major and provocative contribution is essential reading for all with an interest in feminist, gender and critical globalisation issues as well as students and scholars of international political economy.

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable legitimate market sectors that are being legalised and decriminalised by governments. Sheila Jeffreys demonstrates how prostitution has been globalized through an examination of: <ul>
<li>the growth of pornography and its new global reach </li> <li>the boom in adult shops, strip clubs and escort agencies </li> <li>military prostitution and sexual violence in war </li> <li>marriage and the mail order bride industry </li> <li>the rise in sex tourism and trafficking in women. </li> </ul> She argues that through these practices women’s subordination has been outsourced and that states that legalise this industry are acting as pimps, enabling male buyers in countries in which women’s equality threatens male dominance, to buy access to the bodies of women from poor countries who are paid for their sexual subservience. This major and provocative contribution is essential reading for all with an interest in feminist, gender and critical globalisation issues as well as students and scholars of international political economy.

Gender Hurts

It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is increasing acceptance by governments and many other organisations and actors of the legitimacy of these rights.   This provocative and controversial book explores the consequences of these changes and offers a feminist perspective on the ideology and practice of transgenderism, which the author sees as harmful. It explores the effects of transgenderism on the lesbian and gay community, the partners of people who transgender, children who are identified as transgender and the people who transgender themselves, and argues that these are negative. In doing so the book contends that the phenomenon is based upon sex stereotyping, referred to as 'gender' – a conservative ideology that forms the foundation for women's subordination. Gender Hurts argues for the abolition of ‘gender’, which would remove the rationale for transgenderism.   This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, feminism and feminist theory and gender studies.

Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

Social Sciences

It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is increasing acceptance by governments and many other organisations and actors of the legitimacy of these rights. This provocative and controversial book explores the consequences of these changes and offers a feminist perspective on the ideology and practice of transgenderism, which the author sees as harmful. It explores the effects of transgenderism on the lesbian and gay community, the partners of people who transgender, children who are identified as transgender and the people who transgender themselves, and argues that these are negative. In doing so the book contends that the phenomenon is based upon sex stereotyping, referred to as 'gender' – a conservative ideology that forms the foundation for women's subordination. Gender Hurts argues for the abolition of ‘gender’, which would remove the rationale for transgenderism. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, feminism and feminist theory and gender studies.

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The Sexuality Papers: Male Sexuality and the Social Control of Women (Explorations in Feminism)

The Sexuality Papers: Male Sexuality and the Social Control of Women (Routledge Library Editions: History of Sexuality)

The Sexuality Papers (Routledge Library Editions: History of Sexuality)

The Sexuality Debates (Women's Source Library)

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (Women and Psychology)

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (Women and Psychology)

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

The Industrial Vagina (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

Gender Hurts