Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (Spinifex Feminist Classics series) - Softcover

Jeffreys, Sheila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1742198074 ISBN 13: 9781742198071

Publisher: Spinifex Press, 2012

Synopsis

Sexuality has been reframed by postmodernism, but this clear discussion of literature, politics, and popular culture provides a useful historical view. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great freedom for women, but did the sexual revolution have the same goals as the Women’s Liberation Movement? Was it truly liberation for women or just another insidious form of oppression? This provocative book argues that sexual freedom sometimes directly opposed actual freedom for women. Tracing sexual mores and attitudes from the 1950s through the 1990s, it explores the nature of both straight and gay relationships and offers original and compelling commentary on The Joy of Sex, Lolita, Naked Lunch, and other representations in the literature on sexuality. Newly updated, this edition provides an important critique and insight into these controversial issues.

About this title

About the Author:

Sheila Jeffreys is a feminist activist and a professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches sexual politics and international feminist politics. She is a founding member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia and the author of numerous books, including Beauty and Misogyny, The Idea of Prostitution, and Unpacking Queer Politics.

Review:

"Anticlimax is the most impressing and critical book that I have read in a long time. Jeffreys is clear, concise, smart, and critical and in all this incorporates a dark sense of humor that I truly appreciate. She delivers strong arguments that are difficult to disprove or argue against...Anticlimax is a great book to use in classroom settings and I wish it would have been mandatory reading in my Women's Studies classes or in the classes I took that discussed sexuality." —Elin Weiss, Metapsychology Online Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1742198074
• ISBN 13: 9781742198071
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 360