Thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality

By Gayle S. Rubin. 2012

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Boobs, back-off, six packs and bits: Mediated body parts, gendered reward, and sexual shame in teens' sexting images (2015, background): “The boundaries around the heterosexual cover of relationships (Rubin 1984) are being reasserted here where girls who independently send, post or tag themselves in images of their ‘breasts’ (particularly if unsolicited) seemed to imply sexual agency that comes under heavy surveillance and is critique”
Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives (2011, background): “Gayle Rubin (1984), “Thinking sex” The now-infamous case of the “West Memphis Three”—three young men who faced life imprisonment after allegedly murdering three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993—reveals the potential danger, volatility, and impact of the moral panics of sexuality.”
Lolita speaks: ‘Sexting,’ teenage girls and the law (2012, background): “This may be, as some pro-sex and third-wave feminists have argued, due to the failure of some second-wave feminists, among others, to theorize pleasure alongside danger (Friedman and Valenti, 2008; Rubin, 1998; Vance, 1984), particularly for heterosexual women.”
Deconstructing the complex perceptions of gender roles, gender identity, and sexual orientation among transgender individuals (2012, background): “Rubin (1993), for example, asserted that if feminism was framed as a theory of gender oppression, where sexuality was assumed to be tied to gender identity, it was questionable whether such a theory of gender oppression could also oﬀer a valid theory of sexual oppression.”
Independent Female Escort’s Strategies for Coping with Sex Work Related Stigma (2012, background): “The United States is markedly conservative in its approach to sexual behavior outside the bounds of heterosexual marriage or committed relationships (Rubin 1992), leading to a climate of intolerance for prostitution (Ditmore 2008; Pheterson 1990).”
Training Computers to See Internet Pornography: Gender and Sexual Discrimination in Computer Vision Science (2017, background): “Thus, alongside the “definitional,” “legal,” and “territo-rial” categories of sexual conflicts that Gayle Rubin (1984) delineated, we also add the category “technological.””
Unique and shared relationship benefits of consensually non-monogamous and monogamous relationships: A review and insights for moving forward. (2017, background): “This ideology consists of beliefs that monogamous relationships are enduring, most people wish to couple, and that the committed relationship is the most important relationship (also see Rich, 1980; G. Rubin, 1984, for feminist and queer theoretical advances).”
Why Pleasure Matters: Its Global Relevance for Sexual Health, Sexual Rights and Wellbeing (2019, background): “Public health and sex education campaigns mirror cultural norms, producing an almost exclusive focus on proscriptive rather than prescriptive models of sexuality and sexual health (Foucault, 1978; Knerr & Philpott, 2011; Rubin, 1984; Vance, 1984).”
Gender Dysphoria: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (2013, neutral): “Gayle Rubin 1984, p. 287.”