Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure The Politics of Pleasure

Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? This is the central question
ofStraight Sex, Lynne Segal's account of twenty-five years of feminist thinking on
sexuality. Covering the thought of sixties-era sexual liberationists, writing on female
sexuality from the lesbian community, and the more recent shift toward sexual
conservatism,
Straight Sex examines an array of issues, including sex as a subversive
activity, the "liberated orgasm," sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, Queer
politics, antipornography campaigns and the rise of the moral right