Loose Women, Lecherous Men: A Feminist Philosophy of Sex / Edition 1

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Overview

Linda LeMoncheck introduces a new way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences, and desires. Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, she discusses methods for mediating the tensions among apparently irreconcilable feminist perspectives on women's sexuality and shows how a feminist epistemology and ethic can advance the dialogue in women's sexuality across a broad political spectrum. She argues that in order to capture the diversity and complexity of women's sexual experience, women's sexuality must be examined from two equally compelling perspectives: that of women's sexual oppression under conditions of individual and institutional male dominance; and that of women's sexual liberation, both in terms of each woman's pursuit of sexual agency and self-definition, and in terms of women's sexual liberation as a class.

Loose Women, Lecherous Men sheds crucial new light on such much-debated topics as promiscuity, adultery, sexual deviance, prostitution, pornography, sexual harassment, and sexual violence against women. Her book supports a dialogue that encourages both women and men to take up a feminist perspective in exploring the meaning and value of sexuality in their lives.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195105568
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 10/28/1997
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 320
  • Lexile: 1740L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Linda Lemoncheck received her Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA in 1981. She has taught philosophy at Occidental College, UCLA, California State University, Long Beach, and USC. Her books and articles in feminist philosophy and applied ethics include Sexual Harassment: A Debate (with Mane Hajdin), Dehumanizing Women: Treating Persons as Sex Objects, and "Feminist Politics and Feminist Ethics: Treating Women as Sex Objects," in Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love (OUP, 1995).

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Table of Contents

Introduction 3
1 What is a Feminist Philosophy of Sex? 9
2 In Hot Pursuit of Sexual Liberation: Should a Woman Be Promiscuous? 27
3 Challenging the Normal and the Perverse: Feminist Speculations on Sexual Preference 67
4 I Only Do It for the Money: Pornography, Prostitution, and the Business of Sex 110
5 Appropriating Women's Bodies: The Form and Function of Men's Sexual Intimidation of Women 155
Conclusion 216
Notes 221
Select Bibliography 265
Index 291
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