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Sex, Feminism and Lesbian Desire in Women’s Magazines (Feminism and Female Sexuality) by Kate Farhall is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book examines evolving pop culture representations of sex and relationships from the 1970s onwards, to demonstrate parallels between the strength of the feminist movement and positive portrayals of women’s sexuality. In charting changes in the sex and relationship content of women’s magazines over time, this analysis reveals that despite surface-level changes in sexual and relationship content, the underlying paradigm of hetero-monogamy remains unchanged. Despite a seemingly more diverse, empowered and liberated sexuality for women in contemporary magazines, in reality, such feminist rhetoric masks an enduring model of sexuality, which rests on women’s sexual and emotional maintenance of male partners and their own self-objectification and self-surveillance. Where substantive changes can be identified, they rise and fall in tandem with feminism. By demonstrating this empirical relationship between cultural products and feminist organising, the book validates an assumption that has rarely been tested: that a feminist social milieu improves cultural narratives about sexuality for women. __Sex, Feminism and Lesbian Desire__ builds on ground-breaking feminist texts such as Susan F

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Author

Kate Farhall

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000169751

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Family & Relationships, Science