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In this article, I examine the seemingly incompatible epistemologies of sex offered by dominance ('governance') feminism and queer theory. While these bodies of work, especially when applied to US legal and political activity on prostitution, are commonly viewed as divergent sparring partners, I propose a 'convergence' of the two in the form of a revived and enhanced sex-positive feminism. If dominance feminism is the 'theory of no' to heterosexuality's male gender power, and if queer theory is the 'theory of yes' to the defiant possibilities of sex, sex-positive feminism is a 'theory of maybe': it examines practices of gender and sexuality in multiple contexts to find the ways in which heterosexuality can sometimes reify, and other times resist, the transfer of eroticised dominance and submission to political practices of patriarchy. After tracing the split between feminism and queer theory and arguing for a 'sex-positive queer feminism', I use the example of prostitution to consider some theoretical and practical implications of this shift in feminist lenses.

Feminist research methodologies seek to conduct research that aligns with the political and social project of feminism. These research methodologies specifically focus on women's voice, experiences, and contributions, center a feminist perspective and adopt premises and assumptions of a feminist worldview. Some of these premises—raising critical consciousness, encouraging social change, and emphasizing a diversity of human experience related to gender at the intersection of race, sexuality, and other categories of identity—align with the premises and assumptions of queer theory. Since both feminist and queer research methods aim to centralize the experiences of people marginalized under racist, sexist, heterosexist, patriarchal, and imperialist conditions, both methods seek decentralization of and liberation from such experiences in research methodologies. While this paper will briefly discuss these important points of alignment between feminist methods and queer theory, the main purpose will be to distinguish these two broad approaches and to outline what queer theory additionally brings to the table.

1. Feminist embattlement on the field of trans -- 2. Revaluing gender diversity beyond the TS/TG hierarchy -- 3. Desire and the "(un)becoming other" : the question of intelligibility -- 4. Risking the unfamiliar : psychic complexity in theories of transsexual embodiment -- 5. Still not in our genes : theorizing complex bodies.

Queer theory by men / Janet Halley -- Theorizing yes : an essay on feminism, law, and desire / Katherine Franke -- The sexual family / Martha A. Fineman -- The sanitized workplace revisited / Vicki Schultz -- Queering sexual orientation : a call for theory as praxis / Francisco Valdes -- How queer theory makes neoliberalism sexy / Martha McCluskey -- Proper objects, different subjects and juridical horizons in radical legal critique / Tucker Culbertson and Jack Jackson -- A few words in favor of cultivating an incest taboo in the workplace / Mary Ann Case -- Care and feminists / Mary Becker -- Methodological descriptions : "feminist" and "queer" legal theories / Adam P. Romero -- The epistemic contract of bisexual erasure / Kenji Yoshino -- Black rights, gay rights, civil rights / Devon Carbado -- The transgender rights imaginary / Paisley Currah -- Compulsory monogamy and polyamorous existence / Elizabeth Emens -- This is not your father's autonomy : lesbian and gay rights from a feminist and relational perspective / Carlos Ball -- Compulsory matrimony / Ruthann Robson -- From paternafare to marriage promotion : sexual regulation and welfare reform / Anna Marie Smith -- Transgressive caretaking / Laura Kessler -- The troubled relationship of feminist and queer legal theory to strategic essentialism : theory/praxis, queer porn, and Canadian anti-discrimination law /Lara Karaian -- Poststructuralism on trial / Ann Scales -- Queer victory, feminist defeat? : sodomy and rape in Lawrence v. Texas / Lynne Huffer

"In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world."--Publisher's website