
Prologue: Porn, Feminism & the folly of NC-17 (Erotic 90’s, Part 1)
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The Importance of Sexual Freedom
Lillian B. Rubin saw the sexual revolution as a moment of empowerment for women. Zhang would soon publish another novel called Any Woman's Blues, which further narrativized her critique of sexual liberation. Women in her generation, she writes, are fully disillusioned after being forced to pay the price of sexual freedom. A careful rereading of the novel shows that free love was never so very free at all.
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