Deviations Rubin Gayle S.
Deviations Rubin Gayle S. Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of "The Traffic in Women," an essay that had a…
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Deviations Rubin Gayle S.
Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of "The Traffic in Women," an essay that had a galvanizing effect on feminist thinking and theory. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s.
That essay became one of queer theory's foundational texts. In another landmark piece, "Thinking Sex," she examined how certain sexual behaviors are constructed as moral or natural, and others as unnatural. Along with such canonical work, Deviations features less well-known but equally insightful writing on subjects such as lesbian history, the feminist sex wars, the politics of sadomasochism, crusades against prostitution and pornography, and the historical development of sexual knowledge.
In the introduction, Rubin traces her