The Sexuality Papers: Male Sexuality and the Social Control of Women

by Lal Coveney, Margaret Jackson, Sheila Jeffreys

Originally published in 1984. The history of sex in the last 100 years has usually been written as a story of progress from repression to sexual liberation. This book argues that the reverse is true, demonstrating that the 'sexual revolution' came as a backlash to a women's movement which challenged men's sexual abuse and tried to reconstruct male sexuality in women's interest. At first it looks at those groups at the turn of the twentieth century who campaigned to challenge prevailing ideas about sexual behaviour. It moves on to review the work of the most influential sexologists Ellis, Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, and then presents a critical analysis of the sex magazine Forum.

Genres: Feminism, Sexuality

109 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[fausto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Male sexuality is shown as it is: patriarchial backlash. Sheila Jeffrey's article is focused on the sufregette's campagne against the male sexual terrorism, a subject that she expanded in her book "The Spinster and Her Enemies." Margaret Jackson's articles deal with the discourse that male sexology created in the late-nineteenth century . And the grupal article by Lal Coveney, Leslie Kay and Pat Mahony analyze the sexologial discourse in the Forum magazine and its link with the sexual "revolution" movement (a subject expanded in another Jeffrey's book "Anticlimax")
Definitely a must read for any radical feminist!