ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a reconstruction of the politicisation of sexuality, starting with: the feminist movement and shows how women battled to gain a denaturalised, political status and how the very conception of this fight changed over time. It explores how feminism has impacted sexuality in general and discusses feminism as an obvious point of departure because feminism was the first movement in which the politicisation of sexuality was formulated. The chapter shows how the rejection of naturalism might not be enough to achieve a sexually unbiased society. Many movements have dealt with politicisation and unravelled the political character of purported natural arguments. Patriarchy is the system under which women are culturally constructed as a socially oppressed group. The politicisation of sexuality largely becomes the disclosure of the process through which women's self-conception is socially constructed by the way in which literature, habits, systems of education, myths and science, create the ideal woman.
