Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader at GLBT History MuseumDeviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader Thursday, June 7 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Gayle Rubin discusses her new volume of groundbreaking essays, Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (Duke University Press), which includes "The Traffic in Women" (1975), a text that galvanized feminist theory, and "Thinking Sex" (1984), a foundational text for queer theory. Along with such canonical work, Deviations features insightful writing on lesbian history, the feminist sex wars, the politics of sadomasochism, crusades against prostitution and pornography, and the historical development of sexual knowledge. Rubin's talk will focus in particular on her involvement in queer public history in San Francisco and on the importance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender archives. Rubin is associate professor of anthropology, women's studies and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. For more information about the book, visit the publisher's website at http://tinyurl.com/GR-Deviations. at the GLBT History Museum at 4127 18th St. in the city's Castro District. Admission is $5.00 (suggested donation). For more information, call (415) 621-1107 or visit http://www.glbthistory.org
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Reminder: Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader at GLBT History Museum @ Thu Jun 7 7pm - 9pm (Queer Things)
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