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“Where angels fear to tread”
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“Where angels fear to tread”
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feminism, sex and the problem of SM, 1969-1993
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Warner
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Alex Ellis
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1976-
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Alex Warner
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author
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Hewitt
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Nancy
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Nancy Hewitt
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chair
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Koven
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Seth
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Seth Koven
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internal member
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Isenberg
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Alison
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Alison Isenberg
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internal member
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Echols
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Alice
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Alice Echols
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2011
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2011-05
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eng
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This study is the first to document the history of the lesbian sadomasochist (SM) community and demonstrates its impact of the feminist Sex Wars in the United States between 1969 and 1993. Bringing together foundational literature and methods of inquiry from women’s studies, queer theory and the history of other excluded social groups, my dissertation highlights issues of power, resistance and collective identity formation. Drawing on newspaper articles and other published sources, archival research and oral histories, I argue that one cannot understand the history of movements for gender, sexual and sexuality equality without also understanding this issue. This project charts the evolution of feminist sexual theory from the 1960s through the 1990s, illuminates ruptures in feminist and gay/lesbian liberation theory and practice and reveals the history and the long-lasting implications of these debates. I show how lesbian SM helped to shape the pornography debates, the development of both queer theory and the field of sexuality studies and was integral to major shifts in American politics and culture in the last two decades of the twentieth century.
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History
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ix, 211 p.
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Ph.D.
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by Alex Ellis Warner
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Lesbians—Sexual behavior
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Feminism
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Sadomasochism
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000061536
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3BP024Q
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Warner
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Alex
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Permission or license
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2011-04-08 16:55:26
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Alex Warner
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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