 | Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991); Robert Baker and Frederick Elliston, eds.,
Philosophy and Sex
, 2d ed. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984); Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, eds.,
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991); D. P. Verene, ed.,
Sexual Love and Western Morality
(New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1972); Robert M. Stewart, ed.,
Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
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| 4. "Western culture" is itself a gloss on a diverse set of nations, peoples, and social institutions. I have tried throughout the book to give some sense of when diverse social perspectives or multiple social oppressions within Western culture require special examination. I have endeavored to do the same for gender relations in many Eastern and less industrialized nations. For an excellent discussion of the dimensions of culture and gender in feminist discourse, see Lugones and Spelman, "Have We Got a Theory for You!"
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| 5. For example, see Catharine A. MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987); Susan Brownmiller,
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
(New York: Bantam Books, 1975); Kathleen Barry,
Female Sexual Slavery
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1979); Susan Griffin,
Pornography and Silence
(New York: Harper & Row, 1981); Andrea Dworkin,
Pornography: Men Possessing Women
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1989); Susan Schecter,
Women and Male Violence: The Visions and Struggles of the Battered Women's Movement
(Boston: South End Press, 1982).
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| 6. Marilyn Frye,
The Politics of Reality
(Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1983), 96.
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| 7. See Carole S. Vance, "Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality," in
Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality
, ed. Carole S. Vance (London: Pandora Press, 1989); Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds.,
Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality
(New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983); Sheryl Ortner and Harriet Whitehead, eds.,
Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981); Stephen Heath,
The Sexual Fix
(London: Macmillan, 1982); Susan Suleiman, ed.,
The Female Body in Western Culture
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986); Toril Moi,
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
(New York: Methuen, 1985); Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice C. Raymond, eds.,
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism
(New York: Teachers College Press, 1990); Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,"
Signs: Journal of Culture and Society
5 (summer 1980): 63160.
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| 8. See Ann Ferguson, Ilene Philipson, Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, and Carole S. Vance and Ann Snitow, "Forum: The Feminist Sexuality Debates,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
10 (autumn 1984): 10635.
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| 9. For elaboration of the postmodern critique of feminist theory, see Jane Flax, "Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory," in
Feminist Theory in Practice and Process
, ed. Micheline R. Malson, Jean F. O'Barr, Sarah Westphal-Wihl, and Mary Wyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 6064; Sandra Harding, "The Instability of the Analytical Categories of Feminist Theory," in Malson et al.,
Feminist Theory in Practice and Process
, 1520; Linda J. Nicholson, ''Introduction," in
Feminism/Postmodernism
, ed. Linda J. Nicholson (New York: Routledge, 1990), 58.
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| 10. Linda Alcoff, "Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory," in Malson et al.,
Feminist Theory in Practice and Process
, 321.
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| 11. See Flax, "Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory," and Harding, "The Instability of the Analytical Categories of Feminist Theory"; also see Sandra Harding,
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991), 185, and "Feminism, Science, and the Anti-Enlightenment Critiques," in Nicholson,
Feminism/Postmodernism
, 100.
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| 12. Harding,
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
, 179. Harding footnotes bell hooks
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