1st Edition

Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity

By Elizabeth Groeneveld Copyright 2023
230 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars re-examines the heated debates about the politics of sexuality known as the sex wars, investigating how they were fundamentally engaged in the complex intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Groeneveld presents an accessible and fascinating framing of lesbian sex magazines as activist media texts engaged in education, community building,... Read more

Preface

Introduction

1. Letters to the Editor as Frictional Space

2. Micro-theorizing, Pedagogies of Pleasure, and the Sexual Imperative

in Lesbian Sex Advice Columns

3. Black Feminist Sex Radical Theorizing

4. Small Activism: Trans Self-Representation in Lesbian Sex Magazines

5. Making Lesbian/Trans Lifeworlds in Fiction and in Fact

6. AIDS Information Activism

7. Consent and Lesbian Porn Magazines

Conclusion

Biography

Elizabeth Groeneveld is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies at Old Dominion University, USA. Her writing explores how feminist media production both reflects and contributes to social change. Her work appears in journals and edited collections, including Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, and American Periodicals. Her first book, Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age (2016), provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated within feminism’s "third wave."