Sex Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/sex/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Sex Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/sex/ 32 32 Femme Fatale Talks Back: Meenu Gaur on Feminist Filmmaking https://www.publicbooks.org/meenu-gaur-on-feminist-filmmaking-desi-noir/ Wed, 25 May 2022 15:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48672 “We have to take over spaces because we are not going to be invited in.”

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]]> My Certainty Shall Be Their Confusion https://www.publicbooks.org/my-certainty-shall-be-their-confusion/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:00:42 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45857 Ann Quin is, above all, a self-aware writer, with an ironic understanding of the limits of symbolic expression, who was nevertheless prepared to test those limits.

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]]> Desire Can Pierce Politics: Amia Srinivasan on Sex, Consent, and Feminism https://www.publicbooks.org/desire-can-pierce-politics-amia-srinivasan-on-sex-consent-and-feminism/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:00:57 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45334 “Given the long, tainted history of sex under patriarchy, maybe we need reparative norms around sex.”[none-for-homepage]

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]]> Sex, Race, and Feminist Connection https://www.publicbooks.org/sex-race-and-feminist-connection/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43913 History, Ann Stoler showed, is not just political action, disconnected from daily domestic acts. Intimate relations are worthy of serious study.

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]]> Dirty Essays, Clean Essays https://www.publicbooks.org/dirty-essays-clean-essays/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:00:19 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40463 Recently translated essay collections underscore how sanitized ethical language has become in the last 60 to 70 years.

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]]> What Women Want https://www.publicbooks.org/what-women-want/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36698 #MeToo has revived an enduring feminist question: What do women want, and how can they get it?

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]]> Imperial Couplings https://www.publicbooks.org/imperial-couplings/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:00:43 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=33702 Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies explores the couple, and intimacy, as foundational historical categories in postcolonial and decolonial studies. At the heart of her narrative lie Carl, a Jamaican ...

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]]> Policing Backpage and the Backpages https://www.publicbooks.org/policing-backpage-and-the-backpages/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:00:34 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=20301 We tend to think of the 21st century and its digitally-mediated, commodified, sexualized reality as a brave new world, but we’ve been here before ...

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]]> Swinging: The Double Life of Anaïs Nin https://www.publicbooks.org/swinging-the-double-life-of-anais-nin/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:00:28 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=18562 In 1937, Henry Miller predicted that the autobiographical oeuvre of Anaïs Nin would one day “take its place beside the revelations of St. Augustine, Petronius ...

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]]> When Secularism Fails Women https://www.publicbooks.org/when-secularism-fails-women/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:00:42 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=18346 When it comes to the work of what Kati Curts recently called “categorical quickening,” Joan Wallach Scott is an exceptional midwife of the body politic ...

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