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Queers Anonymous: Lesbians, Gay Men, Free Speech, And Cyberspace, Edward D. Stein Jan 2003

Queers Anonymous: Lesbians, Gay Men, Free Speech, And Cyberspace, Edward D. Stein

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The expansion of cyberspace in the past decade has created unprecedented opportunities for communication, both across the globe and across the street. The Internet and other forms of cyberspace have provided new avenues for anonymous and pseudonymous communication. Individuals can now interact without the traditional constraints of time, place, and manner of communication.


Slavery And The Roots Of Sexual Harassment, Adrienne D. Davis Jan 2003

Slavery And The Roots Of Sexual Harassment, Adrienne D. Davis

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In recent years, feminist scholars and activists have demonstrated the ways that U.S. slavery functioned as a system of gender supremacy. It entailed the dominance of men over women as well as whites over blacks. Adding the gender lens has shed immense light on the ways that sex, law, and power operated in the racially supremacist enslaving South. In recent years, this literature has emphasized the ways that slavery's sexual and racial subordination converged around the bodies of enslaved black women. One project within this literature characterizes slavery as a "sexual political economy" to make explicit the connections between its …