Beginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives
about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema
began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly
associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations
between loving couples. Women’s bodies and queer sexualities
became intensely charged figures of political contestation,
aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining
sexuality and to new liberal understandings of individual freedom
and social responsibility. In Making Sex Public Damon R. Young
tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives: on the one
hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic
existence; on the other, an idea of women’s and queer sexuality
as corrosive to the very fabric of social life. Taking a
transatlantic perspective from the late '50s through the present,
from And God Created Woman and Barbarella to Cruising and Shortbus,
Young argues that cinema participated in the transformation of the
sexual subject while showing how women and queers were both agents
and objects of that transformation.
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