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NEW SEXUAL AGENDAS Alro by Lynne Segal IS THE F1JTURE FEMALE? TROUBLED THOUGHTS ON CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM SEX EXPOSED: FEMINISM AND THE PORNOGRAPHY DEBATE (editor with Mary Mcintosh) SLOW MOTION: CHANGING MASCUUNITIES, CHANGING MEN STRAIGHT SEX: THE POUTICS OF PLEASURE New Sexual Agendas Edited by Lynne Segal Professor of Gender Studies Middlesex UniDersi~ Enfold Editorial matter and selection © Lynne Segal 1997 Chapter 3 © Stephen Frosh 1997 Chapter 15 ©Alan Sinfield 1997 Text © Macmillan Press Ltd 1997 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1997 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 1997 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-0-333-67568-7 ISBN 978-1-349-25549-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-25549-8 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 109876 5 4 3 2 I 06 05 04 03 02 0 I 00 99 98 97 Contents Notes on the Contributors Vll Preface Lynne Segal XI I HISTORICAL ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS Heroes or Villains? Reconsidering British fin de siecle Sexology LMley Hall 3 2 Thinking Sex Historically W,cy Bland and Frank Mort 17 3 Psychoanalytic Challenges: A Contribution to the New Sexual Agenda Stephen Frosh 32 4 Sexual Values Revisited Jdfr~ Weekr 43 5 Sexual Revolution R. W Connell 60 6 Feminist Sexual Politics and the Heterosexual Predicament Lynne Segal 77 7 Conservative Agendas and Government Policy Martin Durham 90 II MEDICINE AND MORALITY 8 Medicine, Morality and the Public Management of Sexual Matters Leonore T t4er 103 9 'Yes, But Does it Work?' Impediments to Rigorous Evaluations of Gay Men's Health Promotion Graham Hart 113 10 Trust as Risky Practice Carla Wdlig 125 11 Therapy as Think Tank: From a Man's Internal Family to New Political Forms Andrew Samuels 136 12 The Case of the Lesbian Phallus: Bridging the Gap between Material and Discursive Analyses of Sexuality Jane M. Ussher 15 7 v Contents V1 III SEXUAL SUBJECTIVITIES, SOCIAL CONFliCTS 13 The Context of Women's Power~essness) in Heterosexual Interactions Ine Vanwesenbeeck 171 14 'Hieroglyphs of the Heterosexual': Learning about Gender in School Shir~ Prendergast and Simon Forrest 180 15 Queer Identities and the Ethnicity Model Alan Sinfield 196 16 Seeing the World from a Lesbian and Gay Standpoint Mary Mcintosh 205 17 The Good Homosexual and the Dangerous Queer: Resisiting the 'New Homophobia' Anna Marie Smith 214 18 Death Camp: Feminism vs Queer Theory Mandy Merck 232 19 'So How Did Your Condom Use Go Last Night, Daddy?' Sex Talk and Daily Life Jill Lewis 235 BibliograplrJ 253 Index 272 Notes on Contributors Lucy Bland is a senior lecturer in Women's Studies at the Uni versity of North London. She is author of Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morali9J, 1885-1914 (1995), and is currently starting work on a book on 'Sexuality, Race and Nation in Interwar Britain'. Bob Connell is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, and the author of many books and articles on a wide range of themes. His most recent books are Gender and Power (1 98 7) and Masculinities (1995). A past president of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, he is a member of a range of policy advisory committees, and a contributor to research journals in sociology, education, political science, gender studies and related fields. Martin DurhaDJ. is a senior lecturer in Politics at the University of Wolverhampton. He is author of Sex and Politics: Fami!J and Morali9J in the Thatcher rears and editor of the special issue of Parliamentary Affairs (April 1994) on Abortion, Morality, Law and Politics. Shnon Forrest is based at Canterbury Christchurch College. He has long experience of working with young people in research and in projects related to health and sexuality. Stephen Frosh is a senior lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic. He has published extensively on psychoanalytical thought and its relevance to understanding contemporary issues of gender, culture and identity. His most recent books are ldenti9J Crisis: Mod ernify, PsychoanalYsis and the Self (1 991) and Sexual Difference: Masculini9J and Psychoanalysis (1994). Lesley Hall is senior assistant archivist in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, Wellcome Institute for the History of Vll Notes on Contributors Vlll Medicine, London. She has published Hidden Anxieties: Male Sexuali!J 190Q-1950 (1991 ), and (with Roy Porter) The Facts qf life: The Creation qf Sexual Knowledge in Britain 165Q-1950 (1995), as well as numerous articles and reviews in a wide variety of journals. She is currendy researching the biography of the feminist sex-radical Stella Browne (188D--1955) Graha.D1 Hart is assistant director of the MRC Medical Sociology Unit, University of Glasgow, and head of the Unit's Programme on Sexual and Reproductive Health. For the past ten years he has been involved in research on risk behaviour for HIV infection. He is editor of AIDS Care (Carfax) and co-editor (with Peter Aggleton and Peter Davies) of the Social Aspects qf AIDS senes. Jffi Lewis is associate professor of Literature and Feminist Studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. She has worked on a variety of AIDS Health Education and Youth Initiative projects in both the UK and the USA, and helped found 'Care to Act', an experimental project in Brighton, for HIVI AIDS and sexual health education for young people. Currendy based in Oslo, she worked with the Norwegian AIDS Association as organizer for their conferences on Women and HIVI AIDS (1995) and HIV/A IDS and Human Rights (1996). Mary Mcintosh teaches Sociology at the University of Essex. She has been a gay and feminist activist for many years and wrote one of the seminal articles of contemporary gay and lesbian theory, 'The Homosexual Role' (1968). She edited Sex Exposed: Feminism and the Pornography Debate with Lynne Segal (1992). Mandy Merck teaches Media Studies at the University of Sussex. She was series editor of Out on Tuesday for Channel 4 television from 1988 to 1991, and her many publication include Perversions: Deviant Readings (1993). Frank Mort is reader in Cultural History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Dangerous Sexualities (1986) and Cultures qf Consumption: Masculinities and Social Space in lAte Twentieth Century Britain (1996). He is currendy writing a history of commer cial culture in Britain, 1945-64. Notes on Contributors lX Shirley Prendergast is a senior research fellow in the Sociology Division at Anglia Polytechnic University. She has researched and written about different aspects of young people's lives in school for many years. Lynne Segal is Professor of Gender Studies at Middlesex Univer sity. She has written extensively on feminism, sexuality and gender. Her books include: Is the Future Female?: Troubled 7houghts on Contemporary Feminism (1 98 7); Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Chan ging Men (1 990); Sex Exposed· Feminism and the Pornography Debate (e d. with Mary Mcintosh) (1992); and Straight Sex: 7he Politics ofP leasure (1994). Andrew SaDluels is Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex. He is a training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a Scientific Associate of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He has published widely, including Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985); 7he Plural Psyche (1989); Psychopathol ogy: Contemporary Jungian Perspecti:oes (1989); 7he Political Psyche (1993); and 7he Secret life of Politics (1997). In addition to clinical work, writing and lecturing, he works as a political consultant. Alan Sinfield is Professor of English and convenor of the MA programme, Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change, at the Uni versity of Sussex. Recent writings include Faultlines: Cultural Materi alism and the Politics of Dirsident Reading (1992); 7he Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Qyeer Moment (1994); and Cultural Politics- Qyeer Reading (1994). Anna Marie Smith teaches Politics at Cornell University. She author of many articles in the area of sexuality, gender, race, post-Marxist theory and discourses of the Moral Right. Her latest book is New Right Dircourse on Race and Sexuali!Y (1993) Leonore Tiefer is Associate Professor in the Department of Urol ogy and Psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center, New York. Work ing as a sexologist-psychologist in university and medical centre settings, she has published extensively on gender, sexology and feminism. Her most recent book was Sex ir Not a Natural Act (1995). Jane M. Ussher is a senior lecturer in social psychology at University College London. Her books include 7he Psychology of the

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New Sexual Agendas tackles the urgent practical and theoretical challenges in the area of gender and sexuality. Leading theorists, activists and clinicians, including Bob Connell, Adam Sinfield, Leonore Tiefer and Jeffrey Weeks, encourage a creative exchange of knowledge across different research an
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