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DESCRIPTION:Gayle S. Rubin\, a cultural anthropologist at the University of
  Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, is a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist\
 , LGBT\, queer\, and sexuality studies who has been shaping the scholarly 
 discourse about the politics of sex for five decades.  In the opening lect
 ure for the Library's exhibition "Radical Desire: Making On Our Backs Maga
 zine\," she will explore the 1980s feminist sex wars in which On Our Backs
  played a catalytic and transformative role. After the lecture and discuss
 ion\, there will be an opportunity to explore the exhibition in Hirschland
  Gallery. Rubin's signed portrait by Honey Lee Cottrell is in the gallery.
 \n\nThis event is part of the Radical Desire Symposium celebrating both th
 e Library's exhibition and the 30th and 50th anniversaries of Cornell's LG
 BT Studies and Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies programs. Related
  event: Making a lesbian sex magazine in the age of feminist sex wars\, Ap
 ril 28.\n\nRubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of 
 “The Traffic in Women\,” an essay that had a galvanizing effect on fem
 inist 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 theory
 ’s foundational texts. Rubin’s oeuvre features equally insightful writ
 ing on subjects such as lesbian history\, the feminist sex wars\, the poli
 tics of sadomasochism\, crusades against prostitution and pornography\, an
 d the historical development of sexual knowledge. Her field-founding essay
 s have been collected in the celebrated volume Deviations (Duke University
  Press\, 2011).\n\n“It is rare to find an intellectual who founded an en
 tire field of sexuality studies\, whose theoretical contributions have bee
 n so far-reaching\, and who continues to make rich\, surprising\, and sing
 ular interventions. These are the essays that riveted generations and clai
 m our attention time and again. Gayle S. Rubin gives us the material life 
 of sexual categories\, lucid and careful argumentation\, extraordinary and
  unprecedented archives. This brilliant collection is a gift for anyone wh
 o wants to follow the formidable trajectory of the most exacting and influ
 ential intellectual of sexuality studies.” — Judith Butler\, Maxine El
 liot Professor\, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature\, University of Calif
 ornia\, Berkeley\n\nCo-sponsored by Cornell's Public History Initiative\, 
 FGSS\, LGBT Studies.\n\nAttendees in person should come early to get a sea
 t. This event will be in a classroom setting. Please check Cornell Univers
 ity's official website for the latest campus public health guidance: https
 ://covid.cornell.edu\n\nTo attend the event virtually\, register in advanc
 e at the link on the right.
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LOCATION:Kroch Library\, 2B48
SUMMARY:The Feminist Sex Wars: A Retrospective by Gayle Rubin
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