Description
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, AIDS 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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Letters to the Editor as Frictional Space
2. Micro-theorizing, Pedagogies of Pleasure, and the Sexual Imperative
in Lesbian Sex Advice Columns
3. Black Feminist Sex Radical Theorizing
4. Small Activism: Trans Self-Representation in Lesbian Sex Magazines
5. Making Lesbian/Trans Lifeworlds in Fiction and in Fact
6. AIDS Information Activism
7. Consent and Lesbian Porn Magazines
Conclusion
