Finger-Licking Good: The Ins and Out of Lesbian Sex (Sexual Politics) [Paperback]

Tamsin Wilton (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Cassell (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0304332593
• ISBN-13: 978-0304332595
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,361,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional and entertaining resource, September 28, 2006

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E. B. MULLIGAN "Bronwyn" (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finger-Licking Good: The Ins and Out of Lesbian Sex (Sexual Politics) (Hardcover)

I got this book solely for the profile of the artist Tee Corinne

I was pleasantly delighted. The book is worth the price for the exceptional annotations at the end of each section alone. An excellent bibliography gives the reader many book purchase ideas.

This is a Keeper!

From the back of the book - Lesbians have lived through the porn wars, the sex wars and the dildo wars but, asks Tamsin Wilton, isn't it time to start making love, not war? For all the hype and visibility around lesbians in the mass media, lesbian sex is under attack from all sides - a consequence of the resurgence of the far Right, the revival of religious fundamentalism, the increase in fascist activity and the construction of 'family values' as a political and social totem. While the combined might of the political and religious Right attempt to marginalize and eradicate lesbian sexuality, a number of feminists have joined them. This controversial book is primarily an exploration of political struggles around lesbian sex within lesbian communities, which sets out to expose the profoundly damaging influence of the lesbian sex 'police', and to argue for unity between feminists and queers who share a political commitment to transform the institution of gender itself.

Queer feminist Tamsin Wilton has written this book as an act of resistance, 'tom-catting around the field of sex, marking out the territory for the dykes'. Bringing a forthright and fresh perspective to debates around lesbian sado-masochism, butch-femme, dildos, lesbian porn and the lesbian sex prefects, she draws some interesting conclusions. Is the dildo-wielding dyke a victim of false consciousness, or the ultimate radical feminist rebel? Who is the real 'fascist', the SM dyke or the revolutionary feminist who castigates her?.