Reviews for Discipline and power

The average rating for Discipline and power based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-22 00:00:00 April Pelt I am filled with gratitude that the Women Against Pornography controversy took place and largely expired before my time in the women’s movement. It sounds bananas and based in fundamentalist religion-level fervor. (I do think about how as a very young woman in the early 2000s at a NOW conference, there was a time I was in an isolated hotel conference room as a woman decompensated behind a microphone while arguing for a stringent anti-pornography resolution and I became, no joke, fearful for our safety. Reading many of these essays makes that moment make more sense to me now.) Learning more about Women Against Pornography from a range of viewpoints from that era, I see the same core issues as when we feminists now fight about assisted reproduction, sex work, and to an extent, trans inclusion. There are other essays and topics in this book. For example, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich never disappoints, and I’m glad to have read it again. Old women’s studies anthologies are at least as fascinating for what has been left off the page.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-15 00:00:00 Michael Atherton A now classic collection of feminist papers exploring desire in a range of social, historical and athropological contexts. Many are published elsewhere, but it contains Adrienne Rich's essential 'Compusory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Experience', Kathy Peiss's excellent analysis of working class women's leisure in New York and others. After a quarter of a century it remains a key collection, even if some of its sections have dated.