Bøker i Sexual politics-serien

Addresses the psychological effect of religious fervour, right-wing Republicanism, internalized self-hatred and the intervention of urban gay/feminist politics on gay/feminist life, identities and communities in the Southern States of America. The book combines interviews with political commentary.

A collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. This book compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by the soft-porn magazine "For Women", and the women's monthly "Cosmopolitan", and also examines TV cult figures.

Discusses current frameworks of sexual discourse - which the author sees as metaphor, myth and rhetoric - and considers why explicit sex talk is so difficult. The various rhetorics of sin, vice and crime, psychoanalysis, sexology, sociology, sexual politics, love and romance are also analyzed.

Explores the way sexual divisions are constituted, regulated and transgressed, through an analysis of cultural representations of sexuality. This study seeks to expose the myth of heterosexuality as neutral or ordinary, demonstrating how it is physically enforced and policed in everyday society.