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17 - Sexuality and Sexual Politics

from Part II - Competing Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

Brooke L. Blower
Affiliation:
Boston University
Andrew Preston
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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“The time has come to think about sex,” the anthropologist Gayle Rubin asserted at the start of a now famous 1984 essay. Sex, held Rubin, might appear to cerebral academics, among others, as “a frivolous diversion from the more critical problems of poverty, war, disease, racism, famine, or nuclear annihilation.” But, she countered, it was precisely in such self-evidently serious circumstances “that people are likely to become dangerously crazy about sexuality.”1

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Print publication year: 2022

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