Gayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her...
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Gayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Traffic in Women; 2. The Trouble with Trafficking; 3. Introduction to A Woman Appeared to Me; 4. The Leather Menace; 5. Thinking Sex; 6. Afterword to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"; 7. Postscript to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"; 8. Blood under the Bridge; 9. The Catacombs; 10. Of Catamites and Kings; 11. Misguided, Dangerous, and Wrong; 12. Sexual Traffic; 13. Studying Sexual Subcultures; 14. Geologies of Queer Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index