Reconsidering Radical Feminism

What's the right way to be a feminist? Heated feminist debates dominated the political discourse of sexuality in the 1980s and '90s. Reconsidering Radical Feminism is a clear, precise summary of these late-twentieth-century feminist interpretations of the politics of heterosexuality. But it is more [...]
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What's the right way to be a feminist? Heated feminist debates dominated the political discourse of sexuality in the 1980s and '90s. Reconsidering Radical Feminism is a clear, precise summary of these late-twentieth-century feminist interpretations of the politics of heterosexuality. But it is more than that. Transcending the right/wrong approach of the feminist sex wars, Jessica Joy Cameron examines how we become invested in arguments that position us as particular kinds of feminists - and as gendered subjects. She maintains the poststructural position that heterosexual practices have no inherent or fixed universal meaning, while validating the radical feminist claim that they are often deployed as gendered strategies of stratification. By using queer theory and affect theory as a lens through which to investigate the legacy of the feminist sex wars, Cameron reveals the timeliness of her subject in an era of campus debates about sexual assault, consent, and safe spaces.