Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism

by Lynn S. Chancer

Book Overview

This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism-pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape-from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmented and mutually exclusive. Exploring the dichotomy between sex and sexism as it has developed through five current feminist debates, Chancer seeks to forge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520209230
• ISBN13: 9780520209237
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"