Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America
How the sexual counterrevolution is polarizing America.
by Nancy L. Cohen.
Intro Pg 3
The sexual counterrevolution was not just a passing backlash. It was an ideologically powered, strategically organised, and well-financed political movement that persists to this day. [2012]
https://www.amazon.com/Delirium-Sexual-Counterrevolution-Polarizing-America/dp/1582438013
The 2012 election was supposed to be about the economy, but over the last few months it turned into a debate about sex and women’s rights. In Delirium, Cohen takes us on a gripping journey through the confounding and mysterious episodes of our recent politics to explain how we and why we got to this place. Along the way she explores such topics as why Bill Clinton was impeached over a private sexual affair; how George W. Bush won the presidency by stealth; why Hillary lost to Obama; why John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate; and what the 2012 presidential contest tells us about America today. She exposes the surprising role of right–wing women in undermining women’s rights, as well as explains how liberal men were complicit in letting it happen. Cohen uncovers the hidden history of an orchestrated, well–financed, ideologically powered shadow movement to turn back the clock on matters of gender equality and sexual freedom and how it has played a leading role in fueling America’s political wars. Delirium tells the story of this shadow movement and how we can restore common sense and sanity in our nation’s politics.
Personal Is Political
Indeed the two women who first turned the women’s movement onto the women’s liberation track were American Christian reformers, not angry man-hating radicals so prominent in the antifeminist imagination.
Mary King, Sandra “Casy” Cason Hayden -both YMCA 1965.
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1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution
By Robert C. Cottrell, Blaine T. Browne
For years to come, NOW leaders worried about conflicts involving liberal feminists such as Friedan, the author of the pathfinding book The Feminine Mystique (1963), and the growing number of radical feminists who drew from ideas articulated by Hayden and King.
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the momentum by 1968 was clearly with the radical feminists.
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In 1970, in an influential essay, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm,” a founder of New York Radical Feminists [ Anne Koedt ] claimed men had sold women a bill of goods about their own desires and biology. She declared women’s rights to sexual pleasure, told men thy had been doing it wrong forever, and pronounced that women actually didn’t need men for sex at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Vaginal_Orgasm