Sexual Pleasure

This image of 'desire' is from the 1983 Women's Perspective exhibit at the Partisan Gallery in Toronto.

This subsection contains material on sexual pleasure and desire from a feminist perspective, including writing and art about women’s pleasure and sexuality, the relationship between pleasure and power, heteronormative and male-centred paradigms, and the (de)pathologization of female desire.

Archival Materials

Audio

Dykes on Mykes: Maria Beatty and Rosemary Delain – 1994

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English

Buttons

Button with the word "Clitzpah" on a black background.
CLITZPAH

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Films

Still from the film "Toward Intimacy" featuring Amethya Weaver, one of the film's subjects, talking about her deaf and lesbian identity. She is a white woman with short brown hair wearing a purple shirt and earrings.
Toward Intimacy

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Debbie McGee

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)