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The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex book cover

1st Edition

The Science/Fiction of Sex Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex

By Annie Potts Copyright 2003
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience? Is the penis an entity with a mind of its own? These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located, are discussed in The Science/Fiction of Sex. Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of... Read more
Introduction. Part One: The Science/Fiction of Sex. Sexual Science Fiction. War of the Worlds. Part Two: The Vocabularies of Heterosex. The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Man with Two Brains. The Incredible Shrinking Man. Innerspace. The Final Frontier. Brave New Worlds. Parting Comments, Future Sexes.

Biography

Annie Potts teaches critical sexuality studies in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Canterbury, NZ. She also leads a national study, funded by the NZ Health Research Council on the social impact of sexuopharmaceuticals. Her previous publications include texts on critical psychology, gender and cultural studies and human/animal politics.

Annie Potts has opened up new ways of understanding the open potential of all forms of sexuality - an exciting and crucial project for feminists of the future. - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University

The Science/Fiction of Sex is original, witty, extremely clever ... It has some remarkable chapters, such as the one on masculinity, which I would rate among the best I've ever read. The analysis of the alternative erotic-theoretical systems proposed by Irigaray and Deleuze are first-class pieces of writing ... daring and intelligent. - Rosi Braidotti, Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies, Utrecht University

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