DEVIATIONS/ A GAYLE RUBIN READER

Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and ga y, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of The Traffic in Wome n, 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 theorys f oundational te...[Read more]