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68. Ibid., 23940; also see Kierkegaard,
Either/Or
.
69. Elliston, "In Defense of Promiscuity," 240.
70. Solomon, "The Virtue of (Erotic) Love," 51516.
71. Ibid., 517.
72. See Marjorie Weinzweig, "Should a Feminist Choose a Marriage-Like Relationship?,"
Hypatia
1 (fall 1986): 13963; also see Ann Ferguson, "On Conceiving Motherhood and
 
Page 231
Sexuality: A Feminist Materialist Approach," in
Mothering: Essays in Feminist Theory
, ed. Joyce Trebilcot (Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1983).
73. A variety of sociological surveys have suggested that married men tend to live longer than single men but that married women tend to die sooner than single women. See Bill Moyers (host), "Healing and the Mind," KCET/PBS television documentary, 23 February 1993.
74. See Dalma Heyn,
The Erotic Silence of the American Wife
(New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992).
75. Sheila Ruth, ed.,
Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies
(Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1990), 87.
76. Patt Morrison, "War of the Words,"
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, 6 December 1992.
77. Mary Daly,
Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1984); Clarissa Pinkola Estes,
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1992).
78. A common complaint regarding the 1991 Mike Tyson trial has been that if Tyson were white and affluent like William Kennedy Smith, he would not have been convicted of rape. For a variety of contemporary discussions about race relations in America, see John Arthur and Amy Shapiro, eds.,
Color, Class, Identity: The New Politics of Race
(Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996).
79. The sexual attraction of Latinos can change drastically for white women when they (as "gringas") visit Mexico. For ways in which Mexican men reinforce the macho stereotype and attract American women, see Cecilia Rodriguez and Marjorie Miller, "Muy Macho,"
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, 6 December 1992.
80. See Karl Taro Greenfeld, "The Broken Dreams of the Blond Geishas,"
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, 8 November 1992; also see Maxine Hong Kingston,
China Men
(New York: Random House, 1989), and Sumiko Iwao,
The Japanese Woman's Traditional Image and Changing Reality
(New York: Free Press, 1993).
81. See Patricia Morton,
The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991); Rennie Simson, "The Afro-American Female: The Historical Context of the Construction of Sexual Identity," and Barbara Omolade, "Hearts of Darkness," in Snitow et al.,
Powers of Desire
, 22935, 35067; Evelynn Hammonds, "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,"
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
6 (summer-fall 1994):12645.
82. See Oliva M. Espin, "Influences on Sexuality in Hispanic/Latin Women," in Vance,
Pleasure and Danger
, 14964. For a moving personal account of life as a lesbian and a Chicana, see Gloria AnzaldÚa,
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
(San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987); also see Cherríe Moraga,
Loving in the War Years
(Boston: South End Press, 1986).

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