| Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution | Sheila Jeffreys | New York University Press | 1990 |
The sexual revolution of the 1960’s and 1970’s is generally considered a time when the women’s movement made great strides. In this provocative book, Sheila Jeffreys argues that this much heralded sexual freedom did not constitute any real gain for women but continued the tradition of their oppression. At the root of sexual liberation, Jeffreys finds an increasing eroticization of power differences within the heterosexual, lesbian, and gay communities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The 1950s
… Marriage Guidance
… Women’s New Equality
… The Eroticising of the Housewife
… The Single Woman
… Anti-Lesbianism
Chapter 2: Decensorship
… Literary Merit
… The Naked Lunch
… Lolita
Chapter 3: The Sexual Revolution
… The Joy of Sex
… Swinging
… Masters and Johnson and Sex Therapy
Chapter 4: The Failure of Gay Liberation
… A False Dawn
… Transvestism, Transsexualism and Gay Liberation
… Paedophilia
… Sadomasochism
Chapter 5: Feminism and Sexuality
… The Days of Innocence
… The Days of Experience
… Pornography
… The Backlash
Chapter 6: Creating the Sexual Future
… Heterosexuality as an Institution
… Heterosexual Desire
… Homosexual Desire