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- Sexism and oppression wear many guises in “#Female Pleasure,” Barbara Miller’s illuminating if one-sided overview of the myriad ways in which women’s sexuality is controlled and subjugated. Profiling five women fighting back against repressive cultural and religious traditions, the film allows each to explain her embrace of activism.
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/movies/female-pleasure-review.html
May 18, 2020 · Whether embraced or contested, consuming pornography is implicated in the ordering and re-ordering of women’s pleasure. As such, the erasure or misrepresentation of female pleasure profoundly impacts on women’s sensemaking of porn-sex and the pleasure derived from it.
- Athanasia Daskalopoulou, Maria Carolina Zanette
- 2020
Aug 21, 2016 · The underlying narrative about feminists blaming, without fully understanding, women who are caught in existential eroticism for perpetuating oppression through complicity grounds Chapter Eight's focus on intra-group blame and forgiveness.
Jul 12, 2022 · This chapter frames the role of the body, the erotic, and leisure as a lens through which to understand political participation and the dynamics of community building process within feminist, lesbian and queer spaces in an urban context.
- giada.bonu@sns.it
- The History of Sexual Freedom and Feminism
- Slut Shaming
- Prude Shaming
- How About We Just Stop Discussing Women’s Sexual Histories?
Sexual freedom has meant many things for feminists in the past, and discussions of sexual freedom today often look very different than they did thirty years ago. The Guardian’s Van Badham puts it well: Our feminist foremothers fought for women to have sexual freedom and agency—causing an increase in women’s sexuality and sexual freedom, developing ...
Slut shaming is uniquely a women’s issue, and words that exist to describe someone “too sexual” are pointedly women-specific. In fact, for men, a common term is “man-whore” or “man-slut”—implying the word is inherently for women. (Hence the lack of a need for the word “woman-whore.”) And even in the situations where these words are used for men, so...
Slut shaming is by no means a solved issue—no matter how successful SlutWalks have been in the past—but it is far more prevalent in discussions of sexual empowerment. One less discussed is the issue of prude shaming—the act of shaming women for having too little sex, or not being sufficiently sexually available for men. Cristen Conger, founder and ...
When it comes to how society views women’s sexual choices, there seems to be no happy medium; any level of sexuality or lack thereof is regarded as shameful, in one way or another. And the fact remains: Either way, you are publicizing a woman’s sexual past and exposing that past (and ultimately that woman) to stand in judgement. Men, of course, fac...
Feminist views on sexuality widely vary. Many feminists, particularly radical feminists, are highly critical of what they see as sexual objectification and sexual exploitation in the media and society. Radical feminists are often opposed to the sex industry, including opposition to prostitution and pornography.
Jun 20, 2020 · Both Interview A and Erika Lust agree that a female perspective is different and therefore better at producing Porn that is “more appreciative of women” (Kear, 2020: Interview A) with “female sexuality and pleasure at the forefront” (Kear, 2020: Interview with Erika Lust).
