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Article: Enlarging the landscape of sexual pleasure.(Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions. Edited by Patricia Beattie Jung, Mary E. Hunt, and Radhika Balakrishnan. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, 220 pages. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00.
That sexual pleasure includes physical and erotic satisfaction is a matter of universal agreement, but can sexual definitions expand to include other pleasures, such as meaningful work, healthy children, and delivery from racism and violence? "Surely," writes Mary E. Hunt, one of the editors of Good Sex, Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions, "these linkages can only deepen sexual pleasure as commonly appreciated, whereas the ...