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Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory
, ed. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 15569; also see Paula Webster, "The Forbidden: Eroticism and Taboo," in
Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality
, ed. Carole S. Vance (London: Pandora Press, 1989), 38598; Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs,
Remaking Love: The Feminization of Sex
(New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1986), chap. 3.
2. See Ellen Carol DuBois and Linda Gordon, "Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought," in Vance,
Pleasure and Danger
, 3149; Judith Walkowitz, "The Politics of Prostitution,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
6, no. 1 (autumn 1980): 12335.
3. See Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love,
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman
(New York:Stein & Day, 1972),10734.
4. See Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, "Introduction," in
Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality
, ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 3034; Toby Marotta,
The Politics of Homosexuality
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981); Gayle Rubin, "The Leather Menace: Comments on Politics and S/M," in
Coming to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M
, ed. Samois (Boston: Alyson Publications, 1987), 21415.
5. The complexity of both the eroticism and the oppression of lesbianism is discussed in Dorothy Allison, "Public Silence, Private Terror," in Vance,
Pleasure and Danger
, 112, and in Julia Creet, "Daughter of the Movement: The Psychodynamics of Lesbian S/M Fantasy,"
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
3 (summer 1991): 13559. For the equation in the public mind of "gay male" with "child molester," see Jeffrey Weeks,
Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modem Sexualities
(New York: Routledge, 1985), 22331, and Rubin, "The Leather Menace,'' 19798, also see Robin Ruth Linden, Darlene R. Pagano, Diana E. H. Russell, and Susan Leigh Star, eds.,
Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis
(San Francisco: Frog in the Well, 1982).
6. See Pat Califia, "A Personal View of the History of the Lesbian S/M Community and Movement in San Francisco," in Samois,
Coming to Power
, 272; also see Rubin, "The Leather Menace," 213. For responses to NOW's and others' accusations of the internalization of patriarchal values by practitioners of sexual deviance,
see Heresies
#12 "Sex Issue" 3, no. 4 (1981).
7. See Carole S. Vance, "Epilogue," in Vance,
Pleasure and Danger
, 43139, and 437, n. 1, for additional references to articles describing the controversy. The papers presented at the conference are collected in
Pleasure and Danger
; also see B. Ruby Rich, "Feminism and Sexuality in the 1980's,"
Feminist Studies
12, no. 3 (1986): 52561.
8. See Janice G. Raymond,
The Transsexual Empire
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1979); Marjorie Garber, "Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender,"
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
1, no. 3 (1989): 13759; Marjorie Garber,
Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
(New York: Routledge, 1992); Richard Ekins and David King, eds.,
Blending Genders
(New York: Routledge, 1996). For more on the social construction of gender and sexuality, see chapter 3, n. 52, in this book.
9. See Louise Armstrong, "Making an Issue of Incest," in
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism
, ed. Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond (New York: Teachers College Press, 1990),4355; Paul Eberle and Shirley Eberle,
The Politics of Child Abuse
(New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, 1986); Toni A. H. MacNaron and Yarrow Morgan, eds.,
Voices in the Night: Women Speaking about Incest
(Minneapolis: Cleis Press, 1981); Janis Tyler Johnson,
Mothers of Incest Survivors: Another Side of the Story
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).
10. See Daniel Tsang, ed.,
The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent
(Boston: Alyson Publications, 1981); Pat Califia,
Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality
, 2d ed. (Tallahassee, Fla.: Naiad Press, 1983).

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