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The feminist sex wars, also known as the lesbian sex wars, sex wars or porn wars, are collective debates amongst feminists regarding a number of issues broadly relating to sexuality and sexual activity.
Who Lost the Sex Wars? Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight. By Amia Srinivasan. September 6, 2021. Today,...
Feminism’s sex wars are often portrayed as a two-sided conflict pitting antipornography feminists versus sex-radical feminists, a conflict that began at the 1982 conference The Scholar and the Feminist IX: Towards a Politics of Sexuality, held at Barnard College.
The Return of the Sex Wars. The decades-old intellectual debate simmering beneath the current conversation over sexual assault on campus. Catharine MacKinnon of Harvard and the University of...
Perhaps the highest praise garnered by the SlutWalk movement has come from scholars who frame it as a long-awaited resolution of feminism’s sex wars. The sex wars were a series of conflicts over matters pertaining to sex and sexuality that embroiled the feminist movement in the United States and Canada from the mid-1970s to the ...
The publication emerged at a juncture in feminist history known as the sex wars, a time of high-octane tensions between “pro-sex” and “anti-pornography” feminists. The two terms obscure the complexity of these debates yet gesture toward a stark ideological rift.
feminist sex wars of the 1970s and 1980s, battles over pornography and sexual expression that caused deep and enduring rifts within the broader feminist movement that are still felt today. 7 Competing feminist con-
