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28. See Bordo, "Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender-Scepticism," 145, 149. I have based much of my critique of postmodernism on Bordo's analysis.
29. Such claims are expanded upon in Luce Irigaray,
Speculum of the Other Woman
, trans. Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985); Luce Irigaray,
This Sex Which Is Not One
, trans. Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985); Hélène Cixous, "Sorties," in
New French Feminisms
, ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron (New York: Schocken Books, 1981), 9098.
30. See Lugones, "Playfulness, 'World'-Traveling, and Loving Perception," 28990.
31. Here I paraphrase María Lugones's description of "world"-traveling, from ibid., 289.
32. For example, see Camille Paglia,
Sex, Art, and American Culture
(New York: Vintage Books, 1992), 4974, and
Vamps and Tramps: New Essays
(New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 1994; Samois, ed.,
Coming to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M
(Boston: Alyson Publications, 1987); Susie Bright (of
On Our Backs
), Nan Kinny and Debi Sundahl (of Blush Entertainment Productions), Marie Mason (of Hot Chixx), and the author Katherine Forrest, in Victoria A. Brownworth, "The Porn Boom,"
Lesbian News
18, no. 7 (February 1993): 4243, 6163; Susie Bright,
Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World
(Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1990).
33. See Hélène Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa," in Marks and Courtivron,
New French Feminisms
, 24564; Julia Kristeva, "The Novel as Polylogue," in
Desire and Language
, trans. Leon Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982), 159209, Luce Irigaray, "When Our Two Lips Speak Together," in
This Sex Which Is Not One
; Daly,
Pure Lust
.
34. Rubin, "Thinking Sex," 28084.
35. See Teresa de Lauretis, "Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: Issues, Terms, and Contexts," in
Feminist Studies/Critical Studies
, ed. Teresa de Lauretis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986), 14.
36. See hooks,
Talking Back
.
37. Naomi Wolf,
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women
(New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1991),13268; Linda LeMoncheck,
Dehumanizing Women: Treating Persons as Sex Objects
(Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985), chap. 2.
38. Compare the social and economic clout of the supermodel who is "made" beautiful by her sponsors and photographers, in Robert E. Sullivan Jr., "Cover Girls Are Made, Not Born,"
Vogue
, April 1992, 33148, to the trials and tribulations of newscaster Christine Craft in
Too Old, Too Ugly and Not Deferential to Men
(New York: Dell, 1988).
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