Book contents
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume III
- Part I American Power in the Modern Era
- Part II Competing Perspectives
- 12 Fighting Jim Crow in a World of Empire
- 13 Wilsonianism and Its Critics
- 14 Humanitarianism and US Foreign Assistance
- 15 Women’s Politics in International Context
- 16 The October Revolution and the American Left
- 17 Sexuality and Sexual Politics
- 18 Religious World Views
- 19 Indigenous Sovereignties and Social Movements
- 20 Fascism and Nativism
- Part III The Perils of Interdependence
- Index
17 - Sexuality and Sexual Politics
from Part II - Competing Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume III
- Part I American Power in the Modern Era
- Part II Competing Perspectives
- 12 Fighting Jim Crow in a World of Empire
- 13 Wilsonianism and Its Critics
- 14 Humanitarianism and US Foreign Assistance
- 15 Women’s Politics in International Context
- 16 The October Revolution and the American Left
- 17 Sexuality and Sexual Politics
- 18 Religious World Views
- 19 Indigenous Sovereignties and Social Movements
- 20 Fascism and Nativism
- Part III The Perils of Interdependence
- Index
Summary
“The time has come to think about sex,” the anthropologist Gayle Rubin asserted at the start of a now famous 1984 essay. Sex, held Rubin, might appear to cerebral academics, among others, as “a frivolous diversion from the more critical problems of poverty, war, disease, racism, famine, or nuclear annihilation.” But, she countered, it was precisely in such self-evidently serious circumstances “that people are likely to become dangerously crazy about sexuality.”1
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 404 - 428Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022