Download or read book Desiring Revolution written by Jane F. Gerhard and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s sex was what mattered most to feminists. Gerhard asks why issues of sex and female pleasure came to matter so much to these "second-wave feminists." She shows how the radical ideas put forward by this generation of American women was a response to attempts to define and contain female sexuality going back to the beginning of the century.