Thought-provoked
Fascinating link to discussion on the question of whether female sexual pleasure is in itself empowering, plus her own longer meditation on the subject on Dr Petra's blog.
For me, this resonated with thoughts evoked by this post on Ambling Along the Aqueduct. I suppose I am a bit leery of attempts to find A New Language For Feminism, since too often this means not wanting to evoke the fuddy-duddy or the negatives that people see encoded in the word feminism rather than embracing its polysemic possibilities.
Being as how I am pretty much of the generation for whom feminism was redefined in the late 60s as 'Women's Liberation' (even though I was already, all on my eccentic lonesome, thinking of myself as a feminist ever since I'd heard the term - in Girl's Crystal, I think, believe it or not). It was a term that grew out of a wider political context.
And it did, of course, have its problematic aspects. In particular perhaps around issues of pleasure, sexuality and empowerment (though I am so not on board with those people who claim that 'sexual liberation' was nothing more than ye olde oppression: I think - you may have guessed - it was All More Complicated). In fact, by the 1970s, that dowdy old term 'feminism' was enjoying a resurgence.
Is it more that we have lost certain modes of analysis and critique since then?
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