The Sexual Imagination

Including work by Martin Amis, Angela Carter, Norman Mailer and Jeanette Winterson, this book takes a feminist look at sex and sexuality and includes topics which range from AIDS, cross dressing and Islam to popular art.

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A 400 page companion to the major religious, scientific political and philosophical theories about sexuality and to a selection of the artists whose work has attempted to understand and represent the subject. The range is from writers like Martin Amis, Angela Carter, Norman Mailer and Jeanette Winterson, through AIDS, Cross Dressing, Islam, theorists like de Sade and Foucault, to popular art like Comics, Barbara Cartland and Jacqueline Susann. Designed to be dipped into, and across varied entries.