Third-Wave Feminism, Sexualities, and the Adventures of the Posts

Abstract

In engaging the issue of contemporary feminism and sexuality, we begin by situating contemporary debates within feminism in the United States in the context of so-called feminist waves, with emphasis on what some are calling the “Third Wave” of feminism. Next, we discuss key feminist debates on sexuality as presented in the 1982 Barnard conference on women and sexuality articulated around the themes of “pleasure and danger” and the 1983 book Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality . Finally, we take on the issue of so-called postsexuality in the context of French and U.S. debates over postmodernism and posthumanism and the proliferation of discourses of the “post.” These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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