GWST 1502 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Feminist Sex Wars, Gender Bender, Radical Feminism

• School: York University
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 1502
• Professor: Carol Bigwood

Document Summary

Sex positive: feminism, queer theory, and the politics of transgression by elisa glick. The assigned article describes the pro-sex and queer theories by considering the historical conditions that have produced the pro-sex discourses. Her analysis over the sex wars begins by focusing on the political factors of these movements. Sex wars also known as feminist sex wars, lesbian wars refer to the debates related to sexuality and its critical analysis found among feminists. The author places pro-sex feminism and queer theory as two faces of sex positivity (glick 20). This categorization examines the politics emerging from pro-sex arguments. Genderfuck is described in the second question as challenging the traditional ideas of sexuality and highlighting what kind of sexual practice is acceptable. Genderfuck is characterized as feminist sexuality (glick 21), by queer theories that have argued for genderfuck. To me, the main point of the article is about what is meant to be radical feminism and pro-sexuality movement.