Overview
Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars re-examines the heated debates about the politics of sexuality known as the Sex Wars, investigating how they were fundamentally engaged in the complex intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Groeneveld presents an accessible and fascinating framing of lesbian sex magazines as activist media texts engaged in education, community building and dialogue, amplifying theories or writers and artists across the intersectional spectrum. Making use of archival material and a cohort of lesbian radical porn magazines, the book posits that collectively these magazines helped create and circulate new ideas about sex, power and identity. The chapters cover lesbian public culture, Trans self-representation, AIDSs activism, and issues of consent. This is an essential intervention into sexuality studies and is suitable for students and scholars in gender and sexuality studies, sociology, media studies, literature, and cultural studies. Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power and Identity is the 2021 winner of the NWSA Routledge Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures Prize.
- | Author: Elizabeth Groeneveld
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Apr 18, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 218 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1032417722
- | ISBN-13: 9781032417721
