New Sexual Agendas

294 Pages·1997·27.86 MB·English

by  Lynne Segal (eds.)

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~
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Editorial matter and selection © Lynne Segal 1997
Chapter 3 © Stephen Frosh 1997
Chapter 15 ©Alan Sinfield 1997
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Contents
Notes on the Contributors Vll
Preface Lynne Segal
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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
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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
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Notes on Contributors
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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.
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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