- 292 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Drawing on the author's own experience as "the other woman" in an affair with am otherwise-committed man, this contemporary feminist study is the first to label the role of the two-timing male as "sexual terrorist." Cheating on the Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism is a feminist analysis of the imbroglio of sexual politics, brute sociobiology, and pop-mediated passion that is conjured up when a married man cheats on his wife with a younger, single woman. Drawing frankly on her own experience as the "other woman, " Lauren Rosewarne scrutinizes the alternate readings of the politics of cheating in terms of feminism's program of gender equality. Arguing that contemporary feminism does not automatically endorse or reject any particular choices, she shows what happens when all three parties to the classic triangle happen to be feminists, each trotting out a different set of feminist arguments to justify, vilify, and rationalize his or her actions. Is the "other woman, " this book asks, just a tool of the cheating man's assertion of gender dominance over both his mate and his mistress—and a willy-nilly a traitor to the sisterhood?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Start a War: Introduction
- 1. A Feminist Examination of Infidelity
- 2. Sugar and Spice and the Boiling of Bunnies: Gender, Ethics and Infidelity Stereotypes
- 3. Agency, Individualism, and Orgasm Politics
- 4. The Divided Woman: Feminist vs. Femme Fatale
- 5. "You Want It. You Buy It. You Forget It.": Infidelity and Consumer Culture
- 6. Ouch! Don't Stop! Infidelity as Sadomasochism
- 7. The Divided Man: Lapsed Feminist vs. Domestic Terrorist
- 8. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Charting a Feminist Infidelity Response
- Conclusion: I Know It's Over, Still I Cling
- Media References
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author