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Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism

By Lynn S. Chancer

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520919280
DOI
10.1525/9780520919280
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15323678 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2019
Pages
330\327
Time added
2023-08-15 02:45:12

Description

This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism—pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape—from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmented and mutually exclusive. Exploring the dichotomy between sex and sexism as it has developed through five current feminist debates, Chancer seeks to forge positions that bridge oppositions between unnecessary (and sometimes unwitting) "either/or" binaries. Chancer's book attempts to incorporate both the need for sexual freedom and the depth of sexist subordination into feminist thought and politics.

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