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.
An intervention that posits lesbian sex magazines as core to the history of a number of central issues in women's studies, including the feminist sex wars and queer theory.
Accessibly written and suitable for undergraduate readers as well as more senior scholars
Includes in-depth research into under-researched archives
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.
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