Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism [Paperback]

Jodi Gold (Editor), Susan Villari (Editor), John StoltenBurg (Afterword), Andrea Dworkin (Contributor), Selden Hol (Contributor), Katie Koestner (Contributor), Michael Scarce (Contributor), Aishah Shahida Simmons (Contributor), Luoluo Hong (Contributor), Jesselyn Brown (Contributor), Kathy Miria (Contributor), Krista Jacob (Contributor), Andy Abrams (Contributor), Kristine Herman (Contributor), Jason Shultz (Contributor), Martha McCaughey (Contributor), Janelle White (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 22, 1999

Armed with three decades of feminism, men and women are coming to college with different ideas and expectations about sexual freedom and violence than did their parents. Since the early 1980's, a student movement has emerged from the belief that sexual violence is neither inherent nor inevitable. Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism chronicles the move to end to all forms of sexual violence and to mold a new sexual paradigm where explicitly consensual sex and sexual autonomy are the norm.

Based on ten years of collaborative research and national organizing, Gold and Villari have compiled the writings of leading student activists and young scholars wrestling with complex issues of power inequities, free speech, and societal constructions of gender and sexuality in accessible and mainstream dialogues. Authors also examine the generationally specific style of student activism which emphasizes peer education and institutional collaboration.

Just Sex—the first ever gathering of primary documents including university policies, personal testimonies, position papers and scholarly essays—offers a glimpse of the "working papers" of a student movement which has altered the sexual landscape of our campuses and communities forever. This valuable volume will be of interest to student activists, administrators, and anyone interested in ending violence on and off of campus.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book represents the work and thought of a series of college generations for whom stopping rape has the same import that ending legal race-based segregation and stopping the Vietnam War had on college campuses in the sixties . . . . Just Sex goes right to the heart of what differentiates sex from rape, what differentiates a human engaging in sex from an object used for sexual release; what makes sex intimate instead of annihilating. This is a book my generation of feminists (who were, before that, sexual liberationists) could not have imagined, because this current generation of assault-and-rape prevention advocates are engaged in the process of making both sex and intimacy a whole-body, whole-mind experience. (Dworkin, Andrea )

Just Sex is the long overdue counterweight to post-feminism invective, an archive for the as yet unwritten history of the feminism movement to end sexual violence. Just Sex offers a much-needed counter-history to reports of the death of feminism. These essays proclaim that feminist activism is very much alive. Just Sex is an exceptionally useful student handbook, and a tool for making 'just sex' possible, on college campuses and in the world beyond them. (Lisa Marcus The Women's Review Of Books, Vol. Xvii, No.7, April 2000 )

About the Author

Susan Villari, MPH, is director of health education at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1989, she has organized student educators and activists including STAAR, Students Together Against Acquaintance Rape which hosted the 1st National Student Conference on Campus Sexual Violence, of which Jodi Gold was the student coordinator. Jodi Gold has spoken at universities and conferences across the continent on student activism and campus sexual violence. She is currently a medical student at the University of Tennessee. Susan and Jodi are also founding members of SpeakOut: The North American Student Coalition Against Sexual Violence.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (December 22, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847693325
• ISBN-13: 978-0847693320
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,060,714 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Our Moms weren't the only activists, January 14, 2000

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This review is from: Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism (Paperback)

Finally a book that dispels the "generation X" loser myth -- yes, there are people under thirty who have made a difference and will spend the rest of their lives doing so. This anthology, written by students, demonstrates and explains that the sexual revolution is not over, it is just maturing and dealing with today's issues and today's woman. Cheers to the editors and writers of this book. I hope that classrooms across the country will pick it up and teach the ongoing, ever evolving struggle of females to be the best, brightest and fearless people they can be.