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This article first aims to set out the feminist theory of Catharine MacKinnon as explicitly as possible and in a way that accounts for its incredible power. To strengthen MacKinnon's theoretical project, the article proposes some modifications to the original that are drawn from, in part, the critiques of queer theorists. The crucial departure proposed here concerns MacKinnon's "critique of desire," which in my view is deeply mistaken. Rather than distrusting the sexual desires of women as hopelessly polluted by subordination, we should be neutral - neither critical nor confident - regarding the degree to which our desires, if fulfilled, will give pleasure, and whether their satiation will serve our interests. What we should doubt, I will argue, are not women's sexual desires but rather women's sexual choices to engage in sex - of any description - that is not desired. In other words, it is the undesired sex in which we engage, and not either the sex we des...
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The work of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon on sex and sexuality has often been posed as adversary to the development of queer theory. Leo Bersani, in particular, is critical of the normative ambitions of their work, which he sees firstly as trying to ‘redeem’ sex acts themselves, and secondly as advocating for sexuality as a site of potential for social transformation. In this article, I argue that this is a misreading of their work. Drawing on Dworkin's wide body of writing, and MacKinnon early essays in Signs, I suggest that their work makes no such case for sex or sexuality. Rather, by bringing their analysis into conversation with Halberstam's recent work on ‘shadow feminism’, I contend that Dworkin and MacKinnon's antisocial, anti-pastoral and distinctly anti-normative vision of sex and sexuality shares many of the same features of queer theory, ultimately advocating for sex as ‘irredeemable’.
Feminist Legal Studies
Rosemary Hunter, Sharon Cowan (eds): Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity2008 •
Feminist legal studies
Rosemary Hunter, Sharon Cowan (eds): Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity: Routledge Cavendish (Glasshouse), Oxford, 2007, …2008 •
King's Law Journal
Sexuality Repositioned: Diversity and the Law edited by Belinda Brooks-Gordon Loraine Gelsthorpe, Martin Johnson and Andrew Bainham2005 •
Direito & Praxis
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories: Gender and Sexuality as Useful Categories for the Critique of Law2021 •
The article proposes a mapping of feminisms and queer positionalities, demonstrating how gender and sexuality are useful categories of legal analysis and critique. It articulates the main discussions and dilemmas of feminist and queer struggles and theories, seeking to identify how their categories, methods and strategies offer a privileged and powerful position for legal criticism.
Based on a Foucauldian and Queer Theory framework, this thesis performs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on seven sex self-help American manuals from the twenty-first century that give advice to heterosexual married couples on how to enhance sexual desire. It aims to show how these manuals constitute a technology of the self that (re)produce normative understandings of sexuality. Embedded in neoliberal modes of governmentality, the books use several legitimation strategies to persuade the readers, who are mainly female, into undergoing tremendous amounts of self-discipline and self-surveillance in order to make themselves and their partners enjoy sexuality, which is considered to be the privileged path to health, self-knowledge and realisation, and marital stability and happiness. The normal and healthy life is portrayed, first and foremost, as sexual; there is an almost complete rejection of life that does not include the active pursuit of sexual pleasure. Secondly, it is coupled, as marriage is seen as a place of love and intimacy where the need for self-fulfilment can be truly achieved. And thirdly, that marriage should be monogamous; monogamy is the only legitimate sexual and emotional economy, and it is associated with psychological maturity and responsibility towards the family. In addition, the sexuality that the manuals encourage is strictly framed within the limits of “appropriate” heterosexual practices, promoting a “packaged sex” consisting of a highly surveilled sexual script that aligns with a middle-class consumer culture. The authors build a hierarchy of sexual respectability that grants social recognition to some people and complicates the access to full citizenship for those who can or do not wish to conform to normative sexuality. This thesis intends to theoretically explore other alternatives for the practice of sex therapy, that step out of the regimes of the normal.
World Literature: Premises and Problems, edited by Luiza Franco Moreira
Polycentrism, Periphery, and the Place of Brazilian Cinema in World Cinema2021 •
Revista Tiempo y Espacio N° 79
“Contra todo el torrente de mi razón”. Resistencia y representación del Intendente José Francisco Bermúdez en la República de Colombia (1822)2023 •
Mersin Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi
The role of diffusion MRI in evaluation of nodular thyroid diseases2019 •
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
Growth optimal investment and pricing of derivatives2000 •
Studia Historica. Historia Medieval
Los maŷāšir de la Axarquía de Málaga y ṭā‘a de Comares2024 •
Pediatric Radiology
Diffusion pseudonormalization and clinical outcome in term neonates with hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy2018 •
Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Diabetes
Guía de recomendaciones para pacientes con diabetes mellitus y patología cardiovascular2021 •
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Carbohydrate-Deficient Transferrin: Validity of a New Alcohol Biomarker in a Sample of Patients with Diabetes and Hypertension2004 •
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública
Respuesta inmunológica y bioquímica de ancianos con infección urinaria frente factores de virulencia en Escherichia coli uropatógenas2020 •