not as it is depicted through the male gaze. “I felt I had to address female desire and it’s diversity,” she said. “How sometimes it’s blacked out or ignored. It’s still something quite suspicious or slightly dirty. I felt like it was important to be more unapologetic...
As Gayle Rubin posited in a seminal study, kinship systems, both blood-based and artificial, are the very locus of female oppression; “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex,” Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. Rayna Reiter (New York: Monthly Review Press, ...