Pleasures of having (a) sex and the sex wars

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dc.abstract.enThis article is a reconsideration of the object of the so-called feminist “sex wars”, past and present. Building on the transfeminist effort to broaden our understanding of “sex” beyond a limiting sex-as-biology and gender-as-culture framework, this article seeks to show the importance of the pleasures of having a sex - a sexed body and role - to the sex wars. In order to do so, it reads two pieces of sex wars era polemical feminist literature in parallel, arguing that while the two texts represent radically different outlooks on ethics and possibility of enjoying having a sex and being sexed, they both show the importance of this question to the sex wars. Finally, the article argues that this broadened perspective on the sex wars can help us make sense of the contemporary feminist conflicts over sex, both as a desire, and as an embodiment - especially trans embodiment.
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Humanistycznych
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Humanistycznych
dc.contributor.authorSzpilka, Jan
dc.date.access2026-01-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-31T08:18:35Z
dc.date.available2026-08-31T08:18:35Z
dc.date.created2025-06-23
dc.date.issued2026-01-23
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.grantnumber1355-31
dc.description.granttitleTrans femininity and sadomasochism/BDSM. Affinities and tensions in the field of the production of gender
dc.description.sdgGenderEquality
dc.description.sdgReducedInequalities
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10894160.2026.2692802
dc.identifier.eissn1540-3548
dc.identifier.issn1089-4160
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2500
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10894160.2026.2692802
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationliteraturoznawstwo
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o kulturze i religii
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOTHER
dc.subject.ensex wars
dc.subject.entransfeminism
dc.subject.enradical feminism
dc.subject.enMartha Alexander
dc.subject.enSheila Jeffreys
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titlePleasures of having (a) sex and the sex wars
dc.title.journalJournal of Lesbian Studies
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle