Pleasure and danger : exploring female sexuality / edited by Carole S. Vance.

"The Papers ... originated at the Scholar and the Feminist IX conference ... held at Barnard College on April 24, 1982"--P. 3.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Despisals / Muriel Rukeyser -- Pleasure and danger: toward a politics of sexuality / Carole S. Vance -- Seeking ecstasy on the battlefield: danger and pleasure in nineteenth-century feminist sexual thought / Ellen Carol DuBois and Linda Gordon -- The taming of the id: feminist sexual politics, 1968-83 / Alice Echols -- Interstices: a small drama of words / Hortense J. Spillers -- Public silence, private terror / Dorothy Allison -- Everything they always wanted you to know: the ideology of popular sex literature / Meryl Altman -- Above and beyond politics: the sexual socialization of children / Mary S. Calderone -- Politically correct? Politically incorrrect? / Muriel Dimen -- Cultural and historical influences on sexuality in Hispanic/Latin women: implications for psychotherapy / Oliva M. Espin -- The myth of the perfect body / Roberta Galler -- The body politic: the defense of sexual restriction by anti-abortion activists / Faye Ginsburg -- Variety: the pleasure in looking / Bette Gordon -- No more nice girls / Brett Harvey -- No progress in pleasure / Barbara Kruger -- Beyond politics? Children and sexuality / Kate Millett -- Fat and the fantasy of perfection / Carol Munter -- The fem question / Joan Nestle -- The misunderstanding: toward a more precise sexual vocabulary / Esther Newton and Shirley Walton -- The historical repression of women's sexuality / Patricia Murphy Robinson -- Thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / Gayle Rubin -- Histoire d'O: the construction of a female subject / Kaja Silverman -- Search for tomorrow: on feminism and the reconstruction of teen romance / Sharon Thompson -- The forbidden: eroticism and taboo / Paula Webster -- Desire for the future: radical hope in passion and pleasure / Amber Hollibaugh -- Is it true what they say about colored pussy? ; Yo daddy! An 80s version of the dozens / hattie gossett -- One hour mama / Porter Grainger -- La dulce culpa ; What is left ; Loving in the war years ; Passage ; The slow dance / Cherrie Moraga -- Sex without love ; Bestiary ; The sisters of sexual treasure ; Outside the operating room of the sex-change doctor ; The partisans and the S.S. ; The solution / Sharon Olds -- Epilogue / Carole S. Vance.