Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure by Lynne Segal

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What is at stake in women's sexual desire for men?
Can women express their pleasure in sex without
increasing men's power?

These questions are central to Lynne Segal's persuasive and polemical challenge to the current confusions and evasions – and feminist orthodoxies – surrounding the topic of women's heterosexual pleasure. Over the last quarter of a century passionate debates about sexuality have raged within the feminist movement. Powerful voices have launched an unprecedented critique of heterosexuality as the basis of men's exploitation of women. Critically surveying recent literature from sexology, psychoanalysis and queer theory, Straight Sex looks at the place of sex in our lives, searches for a positive account of female heterosexuality and suggests ways in which straight women seek social empowerment and sexual pleasure.