Rubin, Gayle

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Rubin, Gayle
Date of birth
1949
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 19898616
Wikidata: Q444593
Library of congress: n 93111167
Sources of Information
  • Outcasts, organization in San Franscisco focused on Sadomasochism, founded in 1984 by Gayle Rubin ( (Bay Area BDSM community photograph collection, 1987-1991, 1987-1991) )
  • El tráfico de mujeres, 1985:t.p. (Gayle Rubin)
  • Marché au sexe, [2002], c2001:t.p. (Gayle S. Rubin)
  • OCLC, Aug. 30, 2011(hdgs.: Rubin, Gayle; Rubin, Gayle S.; usage: Gayle Rubin; Gayle S. Rubin)
  • Wikipedia, Aug. 30, 2011(Gayle Rubin; Gayle S. Rubin (b. 1949); cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and influential theorist of sex and gender politics)
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Wikipedia description:

Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist, theorist and activist, best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies. Her essay "The Traffic in Women" (1975) had a lasting influence in second-wave feminism and early gender studies, by arguing that gender oppression could not be adequately explained by Marxist conceptions of the patriarchy. Her 1984 essay "Thinking Sex" is widely regarded as a founding text of gay and lesbian studies, sexuality studies, and queer theory. She has written on a range of subjects including the politics of sexuality, gender oppression, sadomasochism, pornography and lesbian literature, as well as anthropological studies of urban sexual subcultures, and is an associate professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

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