Lesbian Sado Ladies: The slave birth (lesbians, femdom, slave, femdom, mistress) (English Edition)
Lesbian Sado Ladies: The slave birth (lesbians, femdom, slave, femdom, mistress)
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Is sexuality political? Is it about identity? Is it about style or preference? These questions continue to be asked. Queer theory, sado-masochism, lesbian chic and lipstick lesbians were all the rage in the late 1980s popular culture. But these so-called glamorous trends were the superficial post-modern disguises of a patriarchal backlash against three decades of radical lesbian feminist advances. Unmasking and challenging the backlash the editors have gathered together seventeen passionate voices on sexuality, race and class, psychology, identity politics and lesbian existence. This anthology is essential reading in Women's Studies and anyone interested in gender critical theory. Contributors include, Julia Parnaby, Lynne Harne, Celia Kitzinger, Rachel Perkins, Sandra McNeill, Carol Reeves, Rachel Wingfield, Sue Wilkinson, Sheila Jeffreys, Elaine Miller, Elaine Hutton, Nicole Humberstone, Jill Radford, Rosemary Auchmuty, Audre Lorde, Janice Raymond, Julie Bindel.
Radical lesbian feminists spent a great deal of time collectively discussing and deconstructing (in a feminist rather than post-modern sense) our own sado-masochistic fantasies and the trappings of sadomasochism and phallocentric culture and analysing and researching how and why this has come to be constituted as sex within Western European societies (see, for example, Rhodes and McNeill 1985). But, for many lesbians, critically questioning what is represented as sex in our society has ceased. It appears that if lesbians do get together to talk about sexual practice and what constitutes sexual desire it is to reinforce and justify the models provided by heterosexual and gay male culture rather than to challenge them (see for example, Smyth 1992). This lack of what was once called collective consciousness-raising among lesbians makes it extremely difficult to challenge such dominant constructions.
