Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Dec 2017)

Feminist sex wars

  • Arianna Pasqualini ha studiato Lettere Moderne presso l’Università di Bologna, dove ha conseguito la laurea triennale nel 2016. Iscritta a Studi orientali nello stesso ateneo, attualmente partecipa al Master in African Studies presso la Dalarna University a Falun, in Svezia.

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 4
pp. 1 – 18

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Feminist sex wars refers to a debate among the feminist world regarding the way in which some sexual practices can contribute to women’s emancipation. Questions such as prostitution and pornography are still active in the contemporary debate, that divides the feminists into two sides: the abolitionists, the antipornography feminists and, at the other side, the “pro-sex” feminists. This essay wants to analyze the implications and the debates born around the 1980s, when the prostitutes began to organize themselves into movements in order to claim their liberty of choice and when the expression “sex work” was coined, which refers to the sexual industry without the prejudice and the typical negative connotation.

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