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24. Gregory, "Against Couples."
25. See Firestone,
The Dialectic of Sex
, chap. 6; also see Lal Coveney, Margaret Jackson, Sheila Jeffreys, Leslie Kay, and Pat Mahoney, eds.,
The Sexuality Papers: Male Sexuality and the Social Control of Women
(London: Hutchins, 1984).
26. For example, see Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality," and Amber Hollibaugh, "Desire for the Future: Radical Hope in Passion and Pleasure," in Vance,
Pleasure and Danger
, 267319, 40110; also see Samois, ed.,
Coming to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M
(Boston: Alyson Publications, 1987).
27. Robert J. Stoller,
Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980).
28. See Linda LeMoncheck,
Dehumanizing Women: Treating Persons as Sex Objects
(Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985), chap. 1.
29. Elliston, "In Defense Of Promiscuity," 223.
30. A. Ellis, "Casual Sex,"
International Journal of Moral and Social Studies
1 (summer 1986): 157.
31. Seidman,
Embattled Eros
, 105. Proponents of this view include Mary Daly,
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1978); Janice G. Raymond,
The Transsexual Empire
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1979); Barry,
Female Sexual Slavery
; Andrea Dworkin,
Our Blood: Prophesies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
(New York:
 
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G. P. Putnam 1981); Susan Griffin,
Women and Nature: The Roaring inside Her
(New York: Harper & Row, 1978); Adrienne Rich,
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
(New York: Bantam Books, 1977).
32. See such disparate feminists as Simone de Beauvoir,
The Second Sex
, trans. and ed. H. M. Parshley (New York: Vintage Books, 1974); Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique
(New York: Dell, 1974); Ti-Grace Atkinson,
Amazon Odyssey
(New York: Links, 1974).
33. See Alice Echols, "The New Feminism of Yin and Yang," in Snitow et al.,
Powers of Desire
, 44147; Alice Echols, "The Taming of the Id: Feminist Sexual Politics, 19681983," in Vance,
Pleasure and Danger
, 5072; Seidman,
Embattled Eros
, 98106. While I hesitate to divide feminism into discrete camps, feminists do draw distinct battle lines vis-à-vis one another, which I have claimed has ultimately weakened the movement as a whole. Therefore, my usage of expressions like "cultural feminist" or "sex radical" is meant to identify a particular feminist point of view that I would prefer were less insular; my usage is not meant to reify existing divisions. For criticism of Echols's interpretation of the cultural feminist agenda, see Haunani-Kay Trask,
Eros and Power: The Promise of Feminist Theory
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986). For an alternative understanding of cultural feminism as an inclusive, not exclusive, feminist ideology and practice, see Katie King, ''Producing Sex, Theory, and Culture: Gay/Straight Remappings in Contemporary Feminism," in
Conflicts in Feminism
, ed. Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller (New York: Routledge, 1990), 87.
34. Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
5 (summer 1980): 63160; Seidman,
Embattled Eros
, 103.
35. See Dorchen Leidholdt, "When Women Defend Pornography," and Sheila Jeffreys, "Eroticizing Women's Subordination," in Leidholdt and Raymond,
The Sexual Liberals
, 12535.
36. For excellent overviews of the debate between cultural and sex radical feminists, see Ann Ferguson, Ilene Philipson, Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, and Carole S. Vance and Ann Barr Snitow, "Forum: The Feminist Sexuality Debates,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
10 (autumn 1984): 10635.
37. See Kathryn Pauly Morgan's analysis of Simone de Beauvoir, in "Romantic Love, Altruism, and Self-Respect," 39697.
38. Robert Nozick, "Love's Bond," in Solomon and Higgins,
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love
, 428.
39. See Firestone,
The Dialectic of Sex
, 131, 149; Elizabeth Rapaport, "On the Future of Love: Rousseau and the Radical Feminists," in Solomon and Higgins,
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love
, 379.
40. Susan Minot,
Lust and Other Stories
(New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1990), 16.
41. Robin S. Dillon, "Care and Respect," in
Explorations in Feminist Ethics
, ed. Eve Browning Cole and Susan Coultrap-McQuin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), 7377.

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