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Ferguson, Ann. "Motherhood and Sexuality: Some Feminist Questions." Hypatia 1, no. 2 (1986): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00834.x.

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This is a review essay that also serves as an introduction to the other essays in the issue. It discusses feminist theory's relation to Freud, feminist ethical questions on motherhood and sexuality, the historical question of how systems of socially constructed sexual desire connect to male dominance, the question of the role of the body in feminst theory, and disputes within feminism on self, gender, agency and power.

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Gunew, Sneja. "Male sexuality: Feminist interpretations." Australian Feminist Studies 2, no. 5 (December 1987): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.1987.9961566.

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Hodgdon, Tim. "Fem: "A Window onto the Cultural Coalescence of a Mexican Feminist Politics of Sexuality"." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 79–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1052122.

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The journal Fem documents the evolution in the 1970s of a distinctly Mexican feminist politics of sexuality. These politics emerged as activist women molded those elements of diverse foreign feminist ideologies and practices which they deemed relevant to the exigencies of their situation into a coherent political program for the liberation of women from male supremacy. / La revista Fem documenta la evolución, en la década de los 70, de una política feminista de la sexualidad idóneamente mexicana. Esta política fue el resultado de una adaptación de diversas ideologías feministas extranjeras, de las cuales las activistas mexicanas tomaron elementos que juzgaron pertinentes a su propia situación y los integraron en un programa coherente para la liberación de la mujer de la supremacía masculina.

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Cohen, Cheryl H. "The Feminist Sexuality Debate: Ethics and Politics." Hypatia 1, no. 2 (1986): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00838.x.

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The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical evaluation of representative positions in the feminst sexuality debate and to suggest that ethical considerations are essential to the complex task of political transformation which is the goal of both sides in the debate. This paper explores both a “rights view” of ethics and a “responsibilities view” and shows, through specific examples, how an appeal to ethics might take feminist sexual politics beyond the current debate.

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Wilkerson, Abby. "Ending at the Skin: Sexuality and Race in Feminist Theorizing." Hypatia 12, no. 3 (1997): 164–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1997.tb00010.x.

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Many feminists have found inspiration in Donna Haraway's myth of the cyborg (1990). From the standpoint of feminist bisexual identity, however, I contend that this myth evades the very issues of race and sexuality which it seems to be addressing. I examine the uses of a bisexual standpoint for a more concrete, situated approach to theorizing sexuality, arguing that reflection on racial identities must be incorporated as well.

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Warren, Shilyh. "Sexuality and Discourses of Care in Feminist Documentary." Feminist Media Histories 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 14–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2023.9.1.14.

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This essay explores forms of feminist screen media that produce political desires about sexual liberation. I focus on key works, especially from the 1970s, that visualize women’s pleasure in conversation with the language of documentary, that is, on projects committed to matters of truth, agency, education, autonomy, and self-care—terms that began to shape sexual politics in the context of 1970s feminism. Political claims about sex and pleasure exist in a range of nonfiction films from the period, including experimental and realist documentaries, although there is as much to learn from what is clearly absent from the history of women’s documentaries about sexuality. I conclude with rare examples of feminist media projects about sexuality and orgasm that explore the connective tissue between the orgasmically radical as well as the social and the material conditions of women’s lives that affect their access to, and even need for, care and pleasure.

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Widegren, Kajsa. "I (back)spegeln." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 26, no. 4 (June 14, 2022): 75–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v26i4.3997.

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This article sketches a retrospective on the different perspectives of sexuality that hasoccurred in Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift from its start in 1980. The aim of the article is to look at and discuss some dominant theories important for feminist research on sexuality and gender, illustrated through a personal selection of artides in Kvt. The development of a research field for feminist sexuality studies has its roots in both feminist re-workings of historical materialism, psychoanalytical theory, post-structural and queer theory. Empirical results presented and discussed in the article shows that sexuality is an aspect of human life were gender differences and power relations between men and women are naturalized and highly dichotomized. Several artides also use discourse analyses to outline notions on gendered sexuality. The differences between feminine and masculine sexuality are in these discourses often located in the functions of the sexual organs, but also in different relations between production and reprodu

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Bradby, Barbara. "Sampling sexuality: gender, technology and the body in dance music." Popular Music 12, no. 2 (May 1993): 155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000005535.

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Bayton (1992) is right to be preoccupied by the mutual blindness between feminism and popular music. For if pop music has been the twentieth-century cultural genre most centrally concerned with questions of sexuality, one would expect more feminist critique and engagement with it. It is undoubtedly true that feminists have often been suspicious of pop music as typifying everything that needs changing for girls in society (McRobbie 1978), and of rock music as a masculine culture that excludes women (Frith and McRobbie 1979). Conversely, those who wished to celebrate the political oppositionality of rock music have often had to draw an embarrassed veil around its sexual politics, and have had good reason to be wary of feminism's destructive potential. Nevertheless, Bayton's own bibliography shows the considerable work that has been done by feminists on popular music, and the problem is perhaps better seen as one of marginalisation of this work within both feminist theory and popular music studies. In addition, I would argue that the work of Radway (1987), Light (1984), Modleski (1984) and others, in ‘reclaiming’ the popular genres of romance reading and soap opera for women, does have parallels in popular music in the work of Greig (1989) and Bradby (1990) on girl-groups, or McRobbie on girls and dancing (1984). Cohen (1992) shows some of the mechanisms through which men exclude women from participation in rock bands, while Bayton's own study of women musicians parallels other sociological work on how women reshape work roles (1990). And the renewed interest in audience research in cultural studies has allowed a re-valorisation of girls' and women's experience as fans of popular music (Garratt 1984; Lewis 1992), and as creators of meaning in the music they listen to (Fiske 1989; Bradby 1990).

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Peng, Niya, Tianyuan Yu, and Albert Mills. "Feminist thinking in late seventh-century China." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 34, no. 1 (February 9, 2015): 67–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-12-2012-0112.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer novel insights into: knowledge of proto-feminism through description and analysis of the rule of the seventh century female Emperor Wu Zetian; postcolonial theory by revealing the existence and proto-feminist activities of a non-western female leader; and the literature on gender and invisibility through a study of a leading figure that is relatively unknown to western feminists and is even, in feminist terms, something of a neglected figure. Design/methodology/approach – In order to examine Wu’s proto-feminist practices as recorded in historical materials, we use critical hermeneutics as a tool for textual interpretation, through the following four stages: choosing texts from historical records and writings of Wu; analyzing the historical sociocultural context; analyzing the relationship between the text and the context; and offering a conceptual framework as a richer explanation. Findings – Wu’s life activities demonstrate proto-feminism in late seventh century China in at least four aspects: gender equality in sexuality, in social status, in politics, and women’s pursuit of power and leadership. Research limitations/implications – Future research may dig into the paradox of Wu’s proto-feminist practices, the relationship between organizational power and feminism/proto-feminism, and the ways in which Wu’s activities differ from other powerful women across cultures, etc. Practical implications – The study encourages a rethink of women and leadership style in non-western thought. Social implications – The study supports Calás and Smircich’s 2005 call for greater understanding of feminist thought outside of western thought and a move to transglobal feminism. Originality/value – This study recovers long lost stories of women leadership that are “invisible” in many ways in the historical narratives, and contributes to postcolonial feminism by revealing the existence of indigenous proto-feminist practice in China long before western-based feminism and postcolonial feminism emerged.

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RIBEIRO (UFPA), Joyce Otânia Seixas. "DIVERGÊNCIAS E CONVERGÊNCIAS ENTRE O FEMINISMO DECOLONIAL DE MARÍA LUGONES, A HISTORIOGRAFIA FEMINISTA E O FEMINISMO PÓS-ESTRUTURALISTA." Margens 16, no. 26 (June 30, 2022): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v16i26.11154.

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Our intention is to carry out an introductory comparative analysis of three relevant feminist approaches that divide the gender studies scene. Despite the risks, the methodological decision was made by theoretical research (Salvador, 1986; Apple, 1994), aware that it is politically informed, as theories reveal interests of the class, gender, sexuality, nation, race/ethnicity, generation, and are linked to social practice. To proceed with the study, we highlight three aspects, which are: the assumptions, the notion of gender, and the political commitment. The results we have reached inform about the existence of divergences and convergences between these feminist approaches, confirming the irreconcilable divergence between feminist historiography and poststructuralist feminism, inconsistent convergence between poststructuralist feminism, and decolonial feminism, and convergence between feminist historiography and decolonial feminism.Keywords: Feminist historiography. Poststructuralist feminism. Decolonial feminism.

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Bernick, Susan E. "The Logic of the Development of Feminism; or, Is MacKinnon to Feminism as Parmenides Is to Greek Philosophy?" Hypatia 7, no. 1 (1992): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00694.x.

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Catharine MacKinnon's investigation of the role of sexuality in the subordination of women is a logical culmination of radical feminist thought. If this is correct, the position of her work relative to radical feminism is analogous to the place Parmenides's work occupied in ancient Greek philosophy. Critics of MacKinnon's work have missed their target completely and must engage her work in a different way if feminist theory is to progress past its current stalemated malaise.

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Parsons, Susan. "Feminist Reflections On Embodiment and Sexuality." Studies in Christian Ethics 4, no. 2 (August 1991): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095394689100400203.

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Clark, J. Michael. "Men's Studies, Feminist Theology, and Gay Male Sexuality." Journal of Men's Studies 1, no. 2 (November 1, 1992): 125–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/jms.0102.125.

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Press, Andrea. "Introduction: Feminist Media Studies and the Sexuality Debates." Communication Review 11, no. 3 (September 15, 2008): 195–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714420802306692.

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Krane, Vikki. "One Lesbian Feminist Epistemology: Integrating Feminist Standpoint, Queer Theory, and Feminist Cultural Studies." Sport Psychologist 15, no. 4 (December 2001): 401–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.15.4.401.

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This paper describes an epistemology integrating feminist standpoint, queer theory, and feminist cultural studies. Feminist standpoint theory assumes that people develop different perspectives based on their position in society, and women have a distinct standpoint because of the power differential between females and males in our society. Queer theory places sexuality as a central focus, acknowledges the common history of devaluation of non heterosexual individuals, and challenges the current power structure marginalizing nonheterosexuals. Feminist cultural studies examines the role of gender within our cultural interactions and the reproduction of gender inequality in society. I then provide examples illustrating how these perspectives come together and guide my research investigating the experiences of lesbians in sport and women’s bodily experiences.

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Ray, Ranita. "Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals." Social Problems 65, no. 4 (August 16, 2017): 456–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spx025.

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Abstract Racialized and classed “risk” narratives of sexuality in the United States construct economically marginalized young women of color as sexually precocious, potential teen mothers who are likely to end up as burdens on the state. Some scholars underline the utility of recognizing reproductive inequalities involved in constructing teen motherhood as an unequivocal social problem, and they stress the importance of exploring teen mothers’ agency in navigating dominant risk narratives. Fewer studies analyze how young women who are not pregnant or parenting produce, reproduce, and challenge dominant risk narratives about their sexuality. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork among 13 young economically marginalized black and Latina women, I demonstrate how feminist ideologies of empowerment interact with pervasive risk narratives in the everyday lives of marginalized women coming of age in the “shadow of the women’s movement.” My observations show that the young women strategically navigate circulating risk narratives about their sexuality by constructing an identity of distance characterized by feminist ideals of independence, self-respect, and self-development to distance themselves from these narratives. However, as they construct this identity of distance, they also stigmatize young mothers and police their own bodies and the bodies of their friends and sisters. I draw on women-of-color feminism to reflect on the uncomfortable relationship—evident in the process of a group of young women’s identity construction—between feminist ideologies of empowerment and bourgeois heteronormativity that marginalizes young women’s sexualities by constructing teen motherhood as inherently problematic.

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Irni, Kuura. "Queering Multispecies Bonding." Humanimalia 12, no. 1 (September 10, 2020): 188–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9435.

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By conducting a queer theoretical reading of Donna Haraway’s work on dogs, this paper develops queer feminist animal studies by focusing on the critique and rethinking of anthropocentric family and relationship norms. Starting with Haraway’s proposal in Staying with the Trouble to “make kin, not babies” and to question the link between genealogy and kin, this paper reads Haraway’s dog stories as queer feminism. The paper argues that Haraway’s thinking aligns with queer feminist scholarship that questions the link between sex and reproduction also in nonhuman animal lives and that recognizes the value of alternatives to compulsory sexuality and couple normativity, such as Angela Willey’s ethics of antimonogamy. By conceptualizing a romantic, non-sexual relationship with a dog, Haraway’s texts destabilize normative ideals of significant relationships between adults and present an alternative to the anthropocentric understandings of intimacy and family. The paper suggests that initiating a discussion about these alternative relationship constellations in the context of feminist animal studies makes it possible to build connections between critical perspectives in animal studies and queer and sexuality studies in order to develop alternatives to couple normative, racialized, class-based, and anthropocentric family and relationship norms.

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Schutte, Ofelia. "A Critique of Normative Heterosexuality: Identity, Embodiment, and Sexual Difference in Beauvoir and Irigaray." Hypatia 12, no. 1 (1997): 40–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1997.tb00170.x.

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The distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality does not allow for sufficient attention to be given to the question of non-normative heterosexualities. This paper develops a feminist critique of normative sexuality, focusing on alternative readings of sex and/or gender offered by Beauvoir and Irigaray. Despite their differences, both accounts contribute significantly to dismantling the lure of normative sexuality in heterosexual relations—a dismantling necessary to the construction of a feminist social and political order.

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Donchin, Anne. "The Growing Feminist Debate over the New Reproductive Technologies." Hypatia 4, no. 3 (1989): 136–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1989.tb00597.x.

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A critical review of four recent works that reflect current conflicts and tensions among feminists regarding new reproductive technologies: In Search of Parenthood by Judith Lasker and Susan Borg; Ethics and Human Reproduction by Christine Overall; Made to Order, Patricia Spallone and Deborah Steinberg, eds. and Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine, Michelle Stanworth, ed. Their positions are evaluated against the background of growing feminist dialogue about the future of reproduction and the bearing of reproductive innovations on such related issues as racism, sexuality, motherhood and abortion.

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Provitola, Blase A. "TERF or Transfeminist Avant la Lettre?" TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 9, no. 3 (August 1, 2022): 387–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-9836050.

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Abstract French lesbian author and theorist Monique Wittig's early contestations of woman as the subject of feminism have played an important role in gender studies in both anglophone and francophone spaces. Since the mid-1990s, French lesbian studies scholars and queer theorists alike have looked to her to anchor their contestations of normative sexuality within a French tradition and counter some of the universalizing aspects of Anglocentric queer theory. As a result, polarizing debates have sprung up over interpretations of Wittigian political lesbianism, typically focusing on divergent readings of her theorization of sex and gender between radical lesbians on the one hand and queer theorists on the other. However, far less attention has been paid to the implications of such debates for transgender studies. Since she has been claimed by trans-exclusionary radical feminists as well as by queer and materialist transfeminists in France, her legacy serves as a rich site through which to understand how the ideological conflicts between those groups relate to feminist history. Taking as a point of departure the appropriation of her name by the anti-trans group Résistance Lesbienne (Lesbian Resistance) that took over the 2021 Paris Pride March, this article fleshes out the implications of her work concerning the place of transgender people, and especially transgender women, in feminist spaces. Ultimately, it is her complexity that makes her a crucial figure for transgender studies insofar as she elucidates French “gender-critical” feminism and its transfeminist critics.

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Scharff, Christina. "‘It is a colour thing and a status thing, rather than a gender thing’: Negotiating difference in talk about feminism." Feminism & Psychology 21, no. 4 (November 2011): 458–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353511419816.

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Young women's rejection of feminism is well-recognized if seemingly paradoxical. Based on 40 qualitative interviews with a diverse group of German and British research participants, this article adopts a performative approach to enhance our understanding of young women's relationship with feminism. First, the article argues that rejections of feminism as anti-man, lesbian or unfeminine should be read as performances of femininity. Second, the article regards performances of femininity as racialized and classed. It traces how race and class are assumed in talk about feminism and examines how young women's positionings intersect with feminist dis-identification. The construction of feminists as unfeminine, for example, posed particular challenges to women who were positioned at a distance from notions of ‘respectable femininity’ because of their class background. While the relationship between young women's positionings and stances towards feminism is not predetermined, the article investigates how gender identity, sexuality, race and class matter in engagements with feminism.

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Weasel, Lisa H. "Feminist Intersections in Science: Race, Gender and Sexuality through the Microscope." Hypatia 19, no. 1 (2004): 183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb01274.x.

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This paper investigates the mutual embeddedness of “nature” and “culture,” as well as the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality, in the story of the HeLa cell line as viewed by a practicing feminist scientist. It provides a feminist analysis of the scientific discourse surrounding the HeLa cell line, and explores how feminist theories of science can provide a constructive and critical lens through which laboratory scientists can view their work.

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Oliver, Kelly. "Motherhood, Sexuality, and Pregnant Embodiment: Twenty-Five Years of Gestation." Hypatia 25, no. 4 (2010): 760–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01134.x.

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My essay is framed by Hypatia's first special issue on Motherhood and Sexuality at one end, and by the most recent special issue (as of this writing) on the work of Iris Young, whose work on pregnant embodiment has become canonical, at the other. The questions driving this essay are: When we look back over the last twenty-five years, what has changed in our conceptions of pregnancy and maternity, both in feminist theory and in popular culture? What aspects of feminist debates from the 1970s and 1980s are still relevant today? And, how might what appear to be radical shifts in popular perceptions of pregnancy actually continue traditional values that objectify and “abjectify” the maternal body?Here, I will focus on three central elements of the revaluation of pregnancy and maternity as they show up in feminist philosophy and in popular culture: 1. The relationship between pregnancy and sexuality, both in terms of pregnant sexuality and in terms of the pregnant body as sexual object; 2. The “choice” to become a mother as a “feminist choice”; 3. The temporality of pregnancy and birth as marking something like “women's time.”

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Henderson-Espinoza, Robyn. "Decolonial Erotics: Power Bottoms, Topping from Bottom Space, and the Emergence of a Queer Sexual Theology." Feminist Theology 26, no. 3 (April 20, 2018): 286–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966735018756255.

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Indecent Theology has provided both Feminist Theology and Liberation Theology with new contours for rethinking bodies, power, dominance, and submission. With regard to the logic of dominance that radically pushes the margins of the margins into a form of inexistent living, I suggest a material turn to rethink the contours that are evoked with Indecent Theology. Materialism has long stood as a philosophy opposing the overwhelming dominance of language and the poststructuralist emphasis that has emerged as the ‘linguistic turn’. Considering ‘new materialism’ as a theoretical platform to reread Indecent Theology provides theologies and ethics an opportunity to re-imagine indecent methodologies through indecency, a sort of ethical perversion. I suggest an indecent turn in mobilizing materialism and kink as theories to reread indecent theology for a productive queer materialist sexual theology. The feminist liberation theology of Marcella Althaus-Reid pushes both feminism and liberation into new contours of power and submission and initiates new contours of queer sexuality into the discourse. When analysing Althaus-Reid’s work, we are brought to attention to the margins of the margins, an awareness of the struggle for power and control by those deemed less than. There are contours of power at and in the margins of the margins, those who occupy ‘bottom space’. From a kink/BDSM orientation, I propose to reread Alrhaus-Read’s feminist liberation theology as decolonial erotics that helps to generate a productive materialist queer sexuality. The overarching methodology of this article is a quasi-auto ethnographic investigation into the ways in which the contours of race, class, gender, sex, sexuality, and ability affect power and submission and in turn reframes both queer theology and queer sexuality that is rooted in the living out of a very particular theology and ethics, which is rooted in queer relating. Theology can neither materialize in a vacuum nor in isolation. An indecent turn to(wards) a queer sexual theology that is rooted in a queer relationality demands attention to the interdependence of queer relating that is materialized through the interdependency of the growing queer desires of bodies, power, dominance, and submission.

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Richardson, Diane. "Claiming Citizenship? Sexuality, Citizenship and Lesbian/Feminist Theory." Sexualities 3, no. 2 (May 2000): 255–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136346000003002009.

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Juhasz, Alexandra. "It's About Autonomy, Stupid: Sexuality in Feminist Video." Sexualities 2, no. 3 (August 1999): 333–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136346099002003005.

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Faulkner, Sandra. "Crank up the Feminism: Poetic Inquiry as Feminist Methodology." Humanities 7, no. 3 (August 23, 2018): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7030085.

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In this autoethnographic essay, the author argues for the use of poetic inquiry as a feminist methodology by showing her use of poetry as research method during the past 13 years. Through examples of her poetic inquiry work, the author details how poetry as research offers Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies scholars a means of doing, showing, and teaching embodiment and reflexivity, a way to refuse the mind-body dialectic, a form of feminist ethnography, and a catalyst for social agitation and change. The author uses examples of her ethnographic poetry that critique middle-class White motherhood, address the problems of White feminism, and reflects the nuances of identity negotiation in research and personal life to show the breadth of topics and approaches of poetic inquiry as feminist research practice and feminist pedagogy.

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Henderson, Lisa. "Sexuality, Feminism, Media Studies." Feminist Media Studies 1, no. 1 (January 2001): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680770120042783.

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Roach, Shoniqua. "Black pussy power: Performing acts of black eroticism in Pam Grier’s Blaxploitation films." Feminist Theory 19, no. 1 (December 3, 2017): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117742866.

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This article contends that black feminist conceptions of ‘pussy power’ have prematurely foreclosed an examination of both pussy and its powers, thereby missing the erotic potential inherent in a ‘pussy power’ that is distinctly black – what I term black pussy power. Taking Pam Grier’s Blaxploitation performances in Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) as my primary case studies, I use black pussy power as a conceptual framework through which to read Grier’s performances of black eroticism, which enable her to resist racialised gendered sexual subjection and tap into modes of erotic agency otherwise denied to her. Moving away from delimited understandings of pussy as female genitalia or an objectified entity of female sexuality, I mobilise black queer feminist theorisations of the ‘arbitrary relation between black sex and gender’ to theorise the polymorphous potential of black pussy to signify beyond the narrow gender and sexual grammars currently available to us. 1 At the same time, black pussy’s discursive connection to black feminine sexuality animates the insurgent potential of black pussy power to secure nominal black freedoms in the face of state-sanctioned infringements on black erotic life.

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Giuliani, Gaia. "The Body, Sexuality and Precarity." Feminist Review 87, no. 1 (September 2007): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400364.

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The focus group held in Bologna on 2 October 2005 revolved around the relationships between ‘body’, ‘sexuality’ and ‘precarity’, which are concepts at the heart of the reflections and political agenda of the feminist and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (GLBTQ) movements in Italy.

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Peters, Wendy M. K., and Julii Green. "Book Review: Critically sovereign: Indigenous gender, sexuality, and feminist studies." Psychology of Women Quarterly 42, no. 3 (August 21, 2018): 386–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684318782178.

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Wodda, Aimee, and Vanessa R. Panfil. "Insert Sexy Title Here: Moving Toward a Sex-Positive Criminology." Feminist Criminology 13, no. 5 (February 13, 2017): 583–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085117693088.

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Literature on sexuality in criminological contexts exists, yet much of it is sex-negative, employs a “deviance frame,” and regards many sex acts as dangerous or destructive. Although research that could be considered sex-positive has been undertaken, an explicitly sex-positive theoretical and practical framework for feminist criminology has not yet been advanced. In this article, we propose “thick desire” as a way to envision an intersectional sex-positive feminist criminology that aligns with the principles of a positive sexuality approach to research and praxis. We explore the issue of criminalization of teen sexting to begin to integrate these principles.

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Allen, Louisa. "Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research Involving Young People and Sexuality at School." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 19, no. 4 (July 2, 2018): 284–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708618784325.

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This article attempts to reconceptualize qualitative research around young people, sexuality, and schooling. In a bid to contribute to what has been coined “post-qualitative” research, it grapples with questions of epistemology and ontology which some argue much humanist methodology negates. This discussion is situated within current debates about the utility of method and a context in which sexuality research and methodology appears to have stagnated. Taking two moments from sexuality research previously conceived within a humanist qualitative methodological paradigm, the article thinks them with feminist new materialist thought. The aim is to consider what new methodological, ethical, and ontological possibilities feminist new materialist ideas afford for research in the field of sexualities and beyond. The article argues that new materialist thought invites an open-ness and response-ability from researchers which reorients the ethics of sexuality research and the nature of sexuality itself.

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Bay-Cheng, Laina Y., and Alyssa N. Zucker. "Feminism Between the Sheets: Sexual Attitudes Among Feminists, Nonfeminists, and Egalitarians." Psychology of Women Quarterly 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 157–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2007.00349.x.

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To better understand the relation of feminist identification to sexuality, we compared the attitudes of feminist, egalitarian, and nonfeminist undergraduate women ( N = 342) in five domains: (a) erotophilia (one's positive affective or evaluative responses to sexual stimuli), (b) sexual assertiveness, (c) perceived self-efficacy for safer sex, (d) sexual satisfaction, and (e) support of the sexual double standard. Significant results of ANOVA analyses included: Feminists were more erotophilic than egalitarians and nonfeminists, egalitarians were the most confident in their ability to be assertive with a partner regarding condom use, and egalitarians and nonfeminists were more supportive of a traditional sexual double standard than feminists. Consistent with Zucker (2004) , we argue that a distinctive characteristic of egalitarians is that their acceptance of feminist values with regard to their own sexual lives does not translate into a critique of gendered sexual norms for other women.

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Osirim, Mary Johnson, Josephine Beoku-Betts, and Akosua Adomako Ampofo. "Researching African Women and Gender Studies: New Social Science Perspectives." African and Asian Studies 7, no. 4 (2008): 327–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156921008x359560.

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Abstract Research on African women and gender studies has grown substantially to a position where African-centered gender theories and praxis contribute to theorizing on global feminist scholarship. Africanist scholars in this field have explored new areas such as transnational and multiracial feminisms, both of which address the complex and interlocking conditions that impact women's lives and produce oppression, opportunity and privilege. In addition, emergent African-centered research on women and gender explores those critical areas of research frequently addressed in the global North which have historically been ignored or marginalized in the African context such as family, work, social and political movements, sexuality, health, technology, migration, and popular culture. This article examines these developments in African gender studies scholarship and highlights the contributions that new research on understudied linguistic populations, masculinity, migration, political development and social movements and the virtual world are making to global feminist discourse.

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Lee-Lampshire, Wendy. "Decisions of Identity: Feminist Subjects and Grammars of Sexuality." Hypatia 10, no. 4 (1995): 32–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb00997.x.

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While Sarah Hoagland's conception of a lesbian ethic offers a promising route toward articulating an ethics of resistance, her notion of self in community does not provide a conception of “subject” capable of both embracing political action as fundamental to personal life and explicitly recognizing cultural, ethnic, and sexual multiplicity as central to ethical decision-making. Such a notion can be found, however, in the remarks of later Wittgenstein concerning the “language games” of describing.

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Lindenmeyer, Antje. "‘Lesbian Appetites’: Food, Sexuality and Community in Feminist Autobiography." Sexualities 9, no. 4 (October 2006): 469–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460706068045.

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Binhammer, Katherine. "Thinking Gender with Sexuality in 1790s' Feminist Thought." Feminist Studies 28, no. 3 (2002): 667. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3178798.

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Williams, Caroline ‘Charlie’. "Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Joanne Barker (ed.) (2017)." European Journal of American Culture 39, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00016_5.

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Review of: Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Joanne Barker (ed.) (2017)Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 260 pp.,ISBN 978-0-82236-365-1, h/bk, £79.00, p/bk, £30.99

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THORNE, BARRIE, CAROL WARREN, and RABBI LAURA GELLER. "A Feminist Regrounding of Sexuality and Intimacy." American Behavioral Scientist 37, no. 8 (August 1994): 1042–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764294037008006.

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Glick, Elisa. "Sex Positive: Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Transgression." Feminist Review 64, no. 1 (April 2000): 19–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/014177800338936.

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From the feminist ‘sex wars’ of the 1980s to the queer theory and politics of the 1990s, debates about the politics of sexuality have been at the forefront of contemporary theoretical, social, and political demands. This article seeks to intervene in these debates by challenging the terms through which they have been defined. Investigating the importance of ‘sex positivity’ and transgression as conceptual features of feminist and queer discourses, this essay calls for a new focus on the political and material effects of pro-sexuality.

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Carabine, Jean. "A Straight Playing Field or Queering the Pitch?: Centring Sexuality in Social Policy." Feminist Review 54, no. 1 (November 1996): 31–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1996.32.

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This article argues that there is a lack of theorizing about sexuality within social policy in what is referred to as the mainstream and more surprisingly within feminist social policy. This is particularly surprising given the presence of sexuality in recent as well as past social policies as well as in social theory. The purpose of this article is not merely to argue that a relationship between sexuality and social policy should be examined but rather to explore and outline the specific nature of the relationship and its implications for both sexuality and the discipline of social policy. Specifically, how do prevalent sexuality discourses inform and constitute social policy and what are the social relations involved in this process? Correspondingly, what role does social policy play in constituting what we know to be the ‘truths’ of sexuality? What exclusions and inclusions result from these dominant social relations and discourses when ‘played’ through social policy? That sexuality has failed to be analytically incorporated within the discipline of social policy is addressed. First, reasons for the lack of theorizing are explored. Specifically, the historical development of the discipline and the formation of an implicit consensus about what constitute the real concerns of welfare. Second, there is an examination of the ways feminist social policy has or has not engaged with sexuality. The final section posits an emergent framework for integrating sexuality into social policy analyses and critiques.

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Fahs, Breanne, Rebecca F. Plante, and Sara I. McClelland. "Working at the crossroads of pleasure and danger: Feminist perspectives on doing critical sexuality studies." Sexualities 21, no. 4 (November 2, 2017): 503–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717713743.

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For those entering the field of sexuality studies, there is often little advice or guidance on the many facets of the work, some of which are pleasurable and some of which are dangerous. Drawing from our personal and professional conflicts surrounding our work as feminist psychologists and sociologists studying women’s sexuality, we extend Carole Vance’s (1984) claims about pleasure and danger by arguing that, for the sex researcher, pleasure and danger are in fact inverted. That which should give us pleasure (e.g. having our work promoted to the public; teaching critical material about sexuality; thinking deeply about our personal relationships) ends up feeling dangerous, and that which should feel dangerous (e.g. saying and doing and working on taboo things; calling out homophobia, racism, classism, and sexism) ends up giving us pleasure. We examine several areas where we experience personal and professional costs and benefits of doing feminist sex research, including relationships with partners, communication with research participants, pedagogical challenges and conflicts, the interface between the sex-researcher identity and university/institutional practices, and, finally, our interface with the public world and the mass media. In doing so, we aim to use our personal experiences to highlight just a few of the areas that emerging sexuality researchers may encounter. In addition, we extend Vance’s framework of pleasure and danger beyond the experiences of women having sex and into the realm of those seeking to understand, research, write about, theorize, and assess the complicated terrain of women’s sexuality.

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Patterson-Faye, Courtney J. "‘I like the way you move’: Theorizing fat, black and sexy." Sexualities 19, no. 8 (August 1, 2016): 926–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640731.

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Moving past conceptualizations of ‘mammy,’ this article discusses fat black female sexuality through experiences of black women in the plus size fashion world. I posit that these women, their clothing, and their bodies’ movement underneath their clothing, subvert previous notions of fatness, blackness and sexuality. By mapping a black feminist lens onto sexual script theory, I analyze in-depth interviews with plus size models, bloggers and designers to show that fat black women and their utilization of clothing both embody and reject mammy, regard sexuality as public and private enterprises of self-reclamation, and subscribe to and complicate cultural norms of fat black (a)sexuality.

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Magnet, Shoshana, and Celeste Orr. "Feminist Surveillance Studies and the Institutionalization of Interphobia." Surveillance & Society 20, no. 4 (December 16, 2022): 420–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i4.15825.

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Though sex, gender, and sexuality have been subject to ongoing forms of state scrutiny and, therefore, concern surveillance studies scholars—one can think of McCarthy and the policing of homosexuality and the current forms of homophobia and cisgenderism structuring bathroom, sport, and “Don’t Say Gay” laws in the US—there is a glaring lack of attention paid to the violent (colonial) state, legal, and medical projects that surveil intersex people’s body-minds with the (eugenic) goal of eradicating intersex variations to make sex, gender, and sexuality “legible,” dyadic. There is a lack of attention paid to intersex issues in mainstream media as well as from surveillance studies scholars. As a result, as scholars reflect backward over the decades of scholarship in surveillance studies in this anniversary issue of Surveillance & Society, we posit that it is time to use the refined tools surveillance studies offers in service of opposing the often-ignored ongoing surveillance—and killing project—of intersex people’s unique sex traits. In doing so, we focus our attention on surgical interventions, medical photography, and the reproductive technology preimplantation genetic diagnosis. These three case studies offer a sampling of the various ways intersex variations are surveilled and eradicated, and, therefore, signal the importance of integrating intersex issues into feminist surveillance studies. To conclude, we address how intersex activists find each other and propel their activism—activism that combats the surveiling and regulating nature of state and medical-sanctioned interphobia—into the mainstream via information and communication technologies. And yet, there remains so much work to be done. We end on the cautionary note that the ways that intersex activists’ work is routinely stymied and undermined by state and medical forces must be considered.

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Hanson, Aubrey. "Joanne Barker, editor. Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55, no. 4 (November 1, 2019): 420–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/seminar.55.4.rev003.

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Trothen, Tracy J. "A social ethical analysis of the United Church of Canada's historical approach to human sexuality." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 29, no. 3 (September 2000): 325–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842980002900305.

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This article provides a feminist ethical analysis of the United Church of Canada's approach to sexuality between the Church's formation in 1925 and 1980. An examination of this period in the Church's history is essential to an adequate understanding of the development of its current approach to sexuality. Two paradigm shifts can be observed from this analysis. First, the Church's understanding of the purpose of human sexuality has moved from the conviction that such expressions must be limited to procreation and the strengthening of the union of heterosexual married couples, to the belief that intimate expressions of human sexuality have intrinsic value within marriage. Second, the understanding of human sexuality has been transformed from a primarily act-centred ethic (rules related to specific actions) to a primarily relational ethic (discernment based on the entire complex of inter-human relationships).

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Wilkerson, Abby. "Ending at the Skin: Sexuality and Race in Feminist Theorizing." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 12, no. 3 (July 1997): 164–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/hyp.1997.12.3.164.

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Cowan, Gloria, and Wendy J. Quinton. "Cognitive Style and Attitudinal Correlates of the Perceived Causes of Rape Scale." Psychology of Women Quarterly 21, no. 2 (June 1997): 227–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1997.tb00110.x.

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This study examines the relations between beliefs about the causes of rape and attitudinal and cognitive style (the tendency to think about social problems systemically, the view of people as complex and changeable, and an intellectual personality) measures in a sample of 270 community-college students. The Perceived Causes of Rape (PCR) Scale included the following subscales: Male Dominance, Society and Socialization, Female Precipitation, Male Sexuality, and Male Hostility. Beliefs about the causes of rape varied on three dimensions: individual versus sociocultural causes of rape, those causes that focus on the perpetrator versus those that focus on the victim, and rape myths versus feminist beliefs. The causes of rape identified as rape myths were associated with male sexuality stereotypes, a version of Burt's (1980) Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, attitudes toward feminism, and self-identification as a feminist. Agreement with the sociocultural causes of rape was associated with cognitive style measures and age. We suggest that belief in sociocultural causes of rape may require a predisposition to think systemically as much as an ideological stance.

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Myerson, Marilyn, Sara L. Crawley, Erica Hesch Anstey, Justine Kessler, and Cara Okopny. "Who's Zoomin’ Who? A Feminist, Queer Content Analysis of “Interdisciplinary” Human Sexuality Textbooks." Hypatia 22, no. 1 (2007): 92–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01151.x.

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Hundreds of thousands of students in introductory human sexuality classes read textbooks whose covert ideology reinforces dominant heteronormative narratives of sexual dimorphism, male hegemony, and heteronormativity. As such, the process of scientific discovery that proposes to provide description of existing sexual practices, identities, and physiohgies instead succeeds in cultural prescription. This essay provides a feminist, queer content analysis of such textbooks to illuminate their implicit narratives and provide suggestions for writing more feminist, queer-friendly texts.

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