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Louise Perry

Disciplines:
britain
journalism
politics/sexual politics

Summary

British author and journalist — author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution — who argues from a feminist perspective that the sexual revolution has primarily benefited men and harmed women, and that traditional norms around sex existed for functional reasons.

Core Contribution

Creates the feminist critique of the sexual revolution from the right — Perry's argument (that the cultural relaxation of norms around sex, porn, and promiscuity has increased male access to sex without increasing female wellbeing, and that the feminist case for sexual liberation was actually a capitulation to male preferences) is the most internally consistent anti-sexual-revolution argument from within feminism.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Historical Influences

Andrea Dworkin Germaine Greer Roger Scruton

Intellectual Lineage

BritainOxford Journalism The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Contemporaries & Peers

Helen Joyce Mary Harrington

Minds Influenced

Sexual politics debate

Intellectual Posterity

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution Sexual counter-revolution feminist argument

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