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Sex in public : Australian sexual cultures / edited by Jill Julius Matthews.

Contributor(s): Publication details: St. Leonards, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1997.Description: xxix, 197 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1864480491
Other title:
  • Australian sexual cultures
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76/6/0994 21
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Jill Julius Matthews -- 1. Nothing personal: sex, gender and identity in the media age / Catharine Lumby -- 2. Screen sex: from television to teledildonics / Barbara Creed -- 3. The economy of pleasure and the laws of desire / Fiona Patten -- 4. Grief and the lesbian queer/n: a love story / Rebecca Cox -- 5. Bisexual mediations: beyond the third term / McKenzie Wark -- 6. Sexual conduct, sexual culture, sexual community: gay men's bodies and AIDS / Gary W. Dowsett -- 7. A short history of facial hair / David McDiarmid -- 8. Degrees of separation: lesbian separatist communities in northern New South Wales, 1974-95 / Judith Ion -- 9. Dangerous desire: lesbianism as sex or politics / Kimberly O'Sullivan -- 10. Lesbian erotica and impossible images / C. Moore Hardy -- 11. Sex and the single T-cell: the taboo of HIV-positive sexuality in Australian art and culture / Ted Gott.
12. Stirred heart and soul: the visual representation of lesbian sexuality / Elizabeth Ashburn -- 13. I was a teenage romance writer / Jenny Pausacker.
Summary: Sex in Public takes us along the highways and byways of sexuality in the 1990s, from inner city queer grunge to the mountain retreats of lesbian separatists. It revels in the solitary pleasures of romance novels, trashy mags and cybersex. And it acknowledges the pain associated with sex as well as the pleasure. If you thought sex in the 1990s was straightjacketed by AIDS, think again!
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 306.766 SEX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library 65055

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-192) and index.

Introduction / Jill Julius Matthews -- 1. Nothing personal: sex, gender and identity in the media age / Catharine Lumby -- 2. Screen sex: from television to teledildonics / Barbara Creed -- 3. The economy of pleasure and the laws of desire / Fiona Patten -- 4. Grief and the lesbian queer/n: a love story / Rebecca Cox -- 5. Bisexual mediations: beyond the third term / McKenzie Wark -- 6. Sexual conduct, sexual culture, sexual community: gay men's bodies and AIDS / Gary W. Dowsett -- 7. A short history of facial hair / David McDiarmid -- 8. Degrees of separation: lesbian separatist communities in northern New South Wales, 1974-95 / Judith Ion -- 9. Dangerous desire: lesbianism as sex or politics / Kimberly O'Sullivan -- 10. Lesbian erotica and impossible images / C. Moore Hardy -- 11. Sex and the single T-cell: the taboo of HIV-positive sexuality in Australian art and culture / Ted Gott.

12. Stirred heart and soul: the visual representation of lesbian sexuality / Elizabeth Ashburn -- 13. I was a teenage romance writer / Jenny Pausacker.

Sex in Public takes us along the highways and byways of sexuality in the 1990s, from inner city queer grunge to the mountain retreats of lesbian separatists. It revels in the solitary pleasures of romance novels, trashy mags and cybersex. And it acknowledges the pain associated with sex as well as the pleasure. If you thought sex in the 1990s was straightjacketed by AIDS, think again!

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