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- Title: Theorizing (Hetero)Sexuality and (Fe)Male Dominance.
- Author : Extrapolation
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 188 KB
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Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott claim that discussions of sexuality at the beginning of the second wave of feminism focused on women's struggles in relationships with men. They argue that many feminists, previously associated with the New Left, combined that movement's critique of marriage and monogamy, dissociation of sex from reproduction and emphasis on sexual pleasure and freedom with a feminist critique of the coercive and predatory aspects of male sexuality as well as with the priority given to male pleasure via penetrative sex (Jackson and Scott 1996: 5, 12). (1) However, lesbian feminists urged heterosexual feminists to move towards a more expansive critique of heterosexuality as an institution. Although lesbian separatism was only one expression of heterogeneous critiques of heterosexuality, Jackson and Scott suggest that "the idea that heterosexual feminists were traitors to the cause" was in circulation from the early 1970s. (2) This formulation provoked defensiveness among heterosexual feminists as well as genuine reflection on the issues.