page 9 of the Intro (pagination has separate numbering, yes!): Conflict between feminists and sexual liberals is nothing new. Indeed, the two groups have been at odds from the beginning of the second wave of feminism in the 1960s, if not before. The early consciousness-raising groups and the activism and publications they generated squarely confronted the sexual attitudes and mores of liberal and left-wing men. In "Notes from the First Year", for example, a collection of essays published by New York Radical Women in 1968, Shulamith Firestone identified and then dissected what she called "the seeming freedoms" for women championed by so-called progressive men. At the top of her list was sexuality: The title of the conference and this volume-"The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism"-is the inspiration of Sheila Jeffreys. As for sex itself, I would argue that any changes were as a result of male interests and not female. . . . A relaxing of mores concerning female
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Introduction by Dorchen Leidholdt
page 9 of the Intro (pagination has separate numbering, yes!):
Conflict between feminists and sexual liberals is nothing new. Indeed, the two groups have been at odds from the beginning of the second wave of feminism in the 1960s, if not before. The early consciousness-raising groups and the activism and publications they generated squarely confronted the sexual attitudes and mores of liberal and left-wing men. In "Notes from the First Year", for example, a collection of essays published by New York Radical Women in 1968, Shulamith Firestone identified and then dissected what she called "the seeming freedoms" for women championed by so-called progressive men. At the top of her list was sexuality: The title of the conference and this volume-"The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism"-is the inspiration of Sheila Jeffreys.
As for sex itself, I would argue that any changes were as a result of male interests and not female. . . . A relaxing of mores concerning female ( ... )
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