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Deviations

A Gayle Rubin Reader

Gayle S. Rubin

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Gayle S. Rubin

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Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of "The Traffic in Women, " an essay that had a galvanizing effect on feminist thinking and theory. In another landmark piece, "Thinking Sex, " she examined how certain sexual behaviors are constructed as moral or natural, and others as unnatural. That essay became one of queer theory's foundational texts. Along with such canonical work, Deviations features less well-known but equally insightful writing on subjects such as lesbian history, the feminist sex wars, the politics of sadomasochism, crusades against prostitution and pornography, and the historical development of sexual knowledge. In the introduction, Rubin traces her intellectual trajectory and discusses the development and reception of some of her most influential essays. Like the book it opens, the introduction highlights the major lines of inquiry pursued for nearly forty years by a singularly important theorist of sex, gender, and culture.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2011
ISBN
9780822394068
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
LGBT Studies
Index
Social Sciences
3
Introduction 
to
A 
Woman 
Appeared 
to 
Me
History 
is 
lies 
agreed 
upon 
by 
the 
victors.
—
Anonymous
The 
first 
novel, 
Adam’s 
and 
Eve’s, 
has 
been 
overprinted.
—
Natalie 
Barney,
Pensées 
d’une 
Amazone
I 
know 
that 
these 
are 
the 
women 
our 
fathers 
stole 
us 
from. 
Know 
thy 
women; 
know 
thyself.
—
Bertha 
Harris,
“The 
More 
Profound 
Nationality 
of 
Their 
Lesbianism”
I
It 
is 
notoriously 
difficult 
to 
maintain 
the 
memory 
of 
the 
past. 
But 
groups 
which 
are 
socially 
marginal 
are 
particularly 
relegated 
to 
the 
fringes 
of 
historical 
dis-
cussion. 
Lesbians, 
suffering 
from 
the 
dual 
disqualification 
of 
being 
gay 
and 
female, 
have 
been 
repeatedly 
dispossessed 
of 
their 
history. 
e 
generation 
of 
lesbians 
who 
emerged 
out 
of 
the 
women’s 
movement 
in 
the 
late 
1960s 
had 
to 
discover 
their 
immediate 
predecessors 
of 
the 
1950s, 
who 
had 
already 
under-
taken 
the 
task 
of 
retrieving 
earlier 
ancestors 
from 
scanty 
archives. 
e 
same 
e 
“Introduction” 
in 
Chapter 
3 
was 
originally 
published 
in 
Renée 
Vivien, 
A 
Woman 
Ap-
peared 
to 
Me
(Weatherby 
Lake, 
Miss.: 
Naiad, 
1976), 
iii–xxxi. 
e 
“Aſterword” 
was 
origi-
nally 
published 
in 
the 
reprinted 
edition 
of 
A 
Woman 
Appears 
to 
Me
(Weatherby 
Lake, 
Miss.: 
Naiad, 
1979), 
xxi–xxii.

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