25 Sexual Positions: Confessions & Manifestas

by Lisa Walker (Editor)

This dynamic new anthology both explores and explodes conventions about women's sexualities. Offering 25 different viewpoints on sexual identity, practices, images, experiences and philosophies, it is the only collection to map the complex landscape of sex for twenty-first-century women. Blending classic must-read essays with fresh, contemporary voices, this collection illustrates how far, and how wide, the liberation of women's sexuality has come-and where it may still need to go. From transgender identity to Britney Spears and Lil' Kim, from Internet sex to HIV/AIDS, this book discusses how women's sexuality operates in relation to feminism, sexual identity, new technologies, entertainment media and commercialism, health and fertility and body politics. Unlike all other collections, this volume brings together work by straight, queer and transgendered women of diverse ages, races and classes-and, of course, diverse sexual positions. In essays both fiercely political and profoundly personal, they create an internal dialogue among various sex-positive feminist perspectives and take the reader on a provocative exploration of women's sexuality.Contributors Pat Califia, Adrienne Rich, Lisa Carver, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Palac, Audre Lord, bell hooks, Cherrie Moraga and Susie Bright.Lisa Walker, author of the groundbreaking book "Looking Like What You Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity," brings together the most important, influential and lively voices on women's sexuality in our time. "25 Sexual Positions" is an essential resource for grrls, women of all ages and sexual orientations-and really smart men.

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005