Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality

This provocative anthology brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists. They are concerned not only with current sexual issues — abortion, pornography, reproductive and gay rights — but they also raise a host of new issues and questions: How, and in what ways, is sexuality political? Is the struggle for sexual freedom a complement to other struggles for liberation, or will it detract from them? Has the sexual revolution diminished or enriched the lives of women?

• Author
• Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, Sharon Thompson, Ellen Ross, Rayna Rapp, Kathy Peiss, Allan Bérubé, John D'Emilio, Barbara Epstein, Ellen Kay Trimberger, Atina Grossmann, Adrienne Rich, Anne Bobroff, Irena Klepfisz, Rennie Simson, Felicita Garcia, Myra Goldberg, Jessica Benjamin, Sharon Olds, Nancy Harrison, E. Ann Kaplan, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Barbara Omolade, Carole S. Vance, Carole Rosenthal, Amber L. Hollibaugh, Cherrie Moraga, Jayne Cortez, Alix Kates Shulman, Judith R. Walkowitz, Alice Echols, Ellen Willis, Joan Nestle

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 489

• Publisher
• Monthly Review Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780853456100

• Genres
• feminism, sexuality, theory, history, gender, anthologies, lgbt, criticism

• Release date
• 1983