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New Millennial Sexstyles

by Carol Siegel

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New Millennial SexstylesCarol Siegel

Sexual radicalism in contemporary American culture.

New Millennial Sexstyles questions the twin feminist orthodoxies that the 1960s sexual revolution failed women and that the sexual attitudes most prominent in current youth cultures are deplorably regressive. Comparing the American sexscape she inhabits to the vision of contemporary culture produced by feminist theorists, Carol Siegel considers whether the sexual revolution may havesucceeded, but in ways not recognized by current academic studies of gender and sexuality. In discouraging undomesticated heterosexuality, academic feminism ignores the connection between mainstream opposition to all unrestrained sexual expression and the growth of new forms of homophobia in our times. At the same time, the youth subcultures' challenges to these views of sexuality and gender have been dismissed as insignificant, or misunderstood as sexist. In this book, they receive more respectful attention. Siegel draws on her own experience as a college student to create a personal history of academic feminism's early sympathy with bourgeois values. She looks at the development of American sex advice literature and at the reception of such transgressivepopular films as Basic Instinct, Thelma and Louise, and Natural Born Killers to demonstrate that the most profoundly capitalist feminist theories have always been the most culturally authoritative. A more encouraging vision emerges in the book's second half, where a record of conversations about sex and gender with young people, and of their responses to products designed for theirconsumption, takes the reader through some of today's most radical youth cultures and suggests new directions for gender studies.

Carol Siegel is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Washington State University, Vancouver. She is author of Lawrence among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions, Male Masochism: Modern Revisions of the Story of Love, and various articles on Modernist and Victorian literature, gender theory, film, and rock music. She also coedits the journals Genders and Rhizomes.

ContentsIntroductionPart One: Styling Love: Feminism, Love, and RealismNonsense Terminable and InterminableHorizon Visions and Unchained MelodiesPart Two: Millennial Sexstyles: The Violent Bear It AwayGlass Slipper Boys, Ruby Slipper GirlsCloser to Gender ChaosAlternative WomenConclusion

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New Millennial Sexstyles questions the twin feminist orthodoxies that the 1960s sexual revolution failed women and that the sexual attitudes most prominent in current youth cultures are deplorably regressive. Comparing the American sexscape she inhabits to the vision of contemporary culture produced by feminist theorists, Carol Siegel considers whether the sexual revolution may have succeeded, but in ways not recognized by current academic studies of gender and sexuality.<P>In discouraging undomesticated heterosexuality, academic feminism ignores the connection between mainstream opposition to all unrestrained sexual expression and the growth of new forms of homophobia in our times. At the same time, the youth subcultures' challenges to these views of sexuality and gender have been dismissed as insignificant, or misunderstood as sexist. In this book, they receive more respectful attention. Siegel draws on her own experience as a college student to create a personal history of academic feminism's early sympathy with bourgeois values. She looks at the development of American sex advice literature and at the reception of such "transgressive" popular films as Basic Instinct, Thelma and Louise, and Natural Born Killers to demonstrate that the most profoundly capitalist feminist theories have always been the most culturally authoritative. A more encouraging vision emerges in the book's second half, where a record of conversations about sex and gender with young people, and of their responses to products designed for their consumption, takes the reader through some of today's most radical youth cultures and suggests new directions for gender studies.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780253214041
Author:
Siegel, Carol
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Location:
Bloomington
Subject:
Women
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Subject:
Human Sexuality
Subject:
Sex
Subject:
Gender Studies
Subject:
Feminist theory
Subject:
Homophobia
Subject:
Heterosexuality
Subject:
United States Social conditions.
Subject:
Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States.
Series Volume:
18.
Publication Date:
October 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
9.20x6.15x.63 in. .70 lbs.

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