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SEX IS NOT A NATURAL ACT AND OTHER ESSAYS
Leonore Tiefer
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004
Almost 30 years after the sexual revolution, it is popularly believed that we live in a time of sexual enlightenment and freedom, a time of openness and dialogue that is unprecedented in recent history. While it is possible to reflect on many positive changes to the culture of sexuality (the availability of contraception for example), Leonore Tiefer challenges her readers to think about the social structures that continue to restrict sexual freedom, especially women's sexual freedom.
Sex is Not a Natural Act is the second edition of a compilation of insightful essays that challenge dominant constructions of sexuality in the United States. This collection is made up of invited lectures, conference presentations, newspaper columns and other works that Tiefer has written over the last few years. Included in this edition are many of the provocative essays that appeared in the first edition, with a generous helping of new essays focusing on major changes in the popular culture of sexuality, especially the public and medical response to the...