Introduction

Gayle Rubin

• A. "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex" (1975)
• • i."The Trouble with Trafficking: Afterthoughts on 'The Traffic in Women'" (2011)
• B. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" (1982)
• • i. "Afterword to 'Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality'" (1993)
  • ii. "Postscript to 'Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality'" (1993)
• C. "Sexual Traffic: Interview with Gayle Rubin by Judith Butler" (1994)
• D. "Blood Under the Bridge: Reflections on 'Thinking Sex'" (2011)

(from Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader, Gayle Rubin, Duke: 2011)

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US radical and socialist feminism - what use sex?

• A. Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex (1971)
  http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic-sex.htm
• B. Catharine McKinnon, "The Problem of Marxism and Feminism," "Sexuality," "Pornography: On Morality and Politics," in Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989)
• C. Nancy Fraser, "Redistribution and Recognition," and "Feminist Interventions," in Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition (1997)
• D. Nancy Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism," "Gayle Rubin: The Abstract Determinsim of the Kinship System," "The Feminist Standpoint Revisited," in The Feminist Standpoint Revisited & Other Essays (1998)
• • i. Earlier versions in Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism (1983)

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Thinking concubinage?(this unit under construction)

• Maria Jaschok, Concubines and Bondservants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom (1988)
• Lillian Ng, Sister Silver (1994)
• Lisa Tran, Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law (2005)

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