Sex Wars Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (10th Anniversary Edition)-[10 Anv]-[Lisa Duggan].pdf

Praise for the first edition of Sex Wars
“A willingness to probe rather than pronounce is part of the collection’s strength, as is the
excitement of a taking up a good fight.”
—The Women’s Review of Books
“With refreshing authority, passion, wit, clarity and outspokenness, these articles seek to
encourage dialog about plex and provocative issues as the call for regulation/cen-
sorship of pornography by MacKinnon and Dworkin, the effects of Bowers v. Hardwick,
and the distinctions between queer theory and lesbian and gay studies. This -
pilation is an important contribution to the field of sexual politics.”
—Library Journal
“Sex Wars provides a much-needed antidote to the recent tidal wave of Republicanism. This
collection of a decade’s worth of writing by theorists/activists Nan Hunter and Lisa Dug-
gan offers us a sobering lesson in the recent history of sexual repression in America. But
they do not leave us wringing our hands—their useful concept of sexual dissent suggests
a route out of the civil rights strategies that backfire and anti-identity politics that seem
dangerously close to self-annihilation.”
—Cindy Patton, author of Queer Diasporas
“Sex Wars is an invaluable contribution to the current debate on feminism and sex. Its
essays reveal with cogent and dismaying clarity the repressive logic that links anti-pornog-
raphy feminism with religious fundamentalism and homophobic paranoia. Feminists who
have been struggling bat this all-too-prevalent logic will be grateful for this new and
powerful weapon in our own ‘sex war’ arsenal.”
—Ellen Willis, author of No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
More praise for the tenth-anniversary edition:
“Although many anti-porn activists draw from feminist roots, Sex Wars proves that those
good intentions were often riddled with homophobic assumptions and inadvertent limits
about women’s sexuality.  Best of all, Sex Wars shows that the answer to feminism’s prob-
lems and mis