Аннотация:issues covered in the book include: the improbable alliance between the right and pro-censorship feminists in the USA and Britain; a puzzled look at Andrea Dworkin's novel, Mercy; the new lesbian and bisexual pornography; censorship in relation to AIDS work; psychoanalytic reflections on fantasy; a reconsideration of racism and pornography in Robert Maplethorpe's photography; Mae West as sexual icon and her brushes with the law; the female nude in high art. Contributors to the book include: Carole Vance; Anne McClintock; Mandy Merck; Elizabeth Wilson; Harriett Gilbert; Carol Smart; Lynda Nead and others. Lynne Segal teaches psychology at Middlesex Polytechnic. She has written Beyond the Fragments (1980), and Is the Future Female?: Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism Virago (1987). Mary McIntoch is the joint author of The Anti-Social Family.
