Unpacking Queer Politics
Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy...
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism
The onslaught that the sexual liberals waged against feminists divided the women’s movement. Liberal feminists, who had long benefited from...
Psychopathology in Women: Incorporating Gender Perspective into Descriptive Psychopathology
Gender has a fundamental influence on the human brain, not only by virtue of biological and hormonal differences between the...
Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
These searingly powerful public addresses by a radical feminist expose the sexual violence, psychological abuse, and cultural denigration to which...
The Lesbian Heresy
A critique of the lesbian sex industry's efforts to profit from women's oppression.
Intercourse
Andrea Dworkin, once called “Feminism’s Malcolm X,” has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her...
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings
Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of...
Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment
Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment brings together two interrelated psychological assessment with gender and sexuality. This handbook...
Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities
Whether one defines sexual orientation as sexual behavior, self-identification, or attraction, sexual orientation is primarily about motivation. The same-sex marriage...
Everyday Pornography
Public and academic debate about "porn culture" is proliferating. Ironically, what is often lost in these debates is a sense...
Autonomy, Gender, Politics
Women have historically been prevented from living autonomously by systematic injustice, subordination, and oppression. The lingering effects of these practices...
Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources
These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in...
Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere
The university classroom has been turned into an intensely bitter battlefield. Conservatives are attacking the academy's ability to teach, and...
Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference
Davina Cooper addresses major questions currently facing political and social theory, particularly in relation to debates about diversity. These questions...
The Ontology of Sex: A Critical Inquiry into the Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Categories
Poststructuralism, particularly through the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, has achieved remarkable success in challenging our belief in...
Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion
Feminine Look shows how the Lacanian concept of sexuation makes possible a new account of the relationship among feminism, psychoanalysis, and...
Deleuze and Sex
In Deleuze's philosophy, sexuality has a central role in the production of thought, bodies and becomings. More specifically, sexuality is...
Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change
Every year 13.3 millions boys and 2 million girls are subjected to circumcision, the involuntary removal of part or all...