Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution

Bibliographic Data

ID2924062
AuthorsEllen Willis (corresponding author)
Year1982
Issue6
Pages3
Publication date1982-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Text (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/466614
OpenAlexW2318067621
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The feminist movement is currently engaged in a passionate, explosive debate or rather, a series of overlapping, intertwined debates about sexuality. The arguments have crystallized around specific issues: pornography; the causes of sexual violence and how best to oppose it; the definition of sexual consent; the relation of sexual fantasy to action and sexual behavior to political practice (is there such a thing as politically correct sex?); the nature of women's sexuality and whether it is intrinsically different from men's; the meaning of heterosexuality for women; the political significance of fringe sexualities like sadomasochism. Each of these issues has become a focus of deeply felt disagreement over the place of sexuality and sexual morality in a feminist analysis and program. In one way or another they raise the question of whether sexual freedom, as such, is a feminist value, or whether feminism ought rather to aim at replacing male-defined social controls over sexuality with female-defined controls

Human sexuality · Political science · Sexual revolution · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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