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A Feminist Sexual Politic: An Ethics of Mutual Freedom
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A Feminist Sexual Politic: An Ethics of Mutual Freedom
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ABSTRACT
We have not amassed enough testimony telling us what women did to ward off male sexual advances, how they coped with ongoing marital rape. How they coped with risking death to deal with unwanted pregnancies. We do know that the world of female sexuality was forever changed by the coming of feminist sexual revolution. Female sexual freedom requires dependable, safe birth control. But female sexual freedom also requires knowledge of one's body, an understanding of the meaning of sexual integrity. All these facts call attention to the need for renewed feminist dialogue about sexuality. Again we need feminist theory to show us how this sexual feeling and identity expresses itself within the context of a society that remains deeply patriarchal. Despite the limitations of feminist discourse on sexuality, feminist politics soil is the only movement for social justice that offers a vision of mutual well-being as a consequence of its theory and practice.