The Lesbian postmodern
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The Lesbian postmodern
（Between men--between women）
Columbia University Press, c1994
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ISBN 9780231084109
Description
All original to this volume, these evocative essays by such scholars as Robyn Wiegman, Elizabeth Grosz, and Judith Roof examine a realm as yet untouched in literary and cultural criticism and gender theory, a specifically lesbian postmodern. The essays trace, on the one hand, how some lesbian cultural theory and production foreground a politics of difference and marginality and thereby critique patriarchal and heterosexual hegemony. On the other hand, some essays note how a postmodern aesthetic, with its valorization of difference, sexual plurality, and gender blurring, assists lesbian cultural production. Among the topics discussed are the shifting definitions of lesbian and postmodern; the potential and danger of this new conceptual territory in theory, literary and visual representation, and popular culture; the lesbian in Hollywood film; actors Jodie Foster and Sandra Bernhard; and works by Jeanette Winterson, Michelle Cliff, and Gloria Anzaldua. Throughout, contributors address the interrelated questions and issues of class, race, ethnicity, postcolonialism, and commodification.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern, by Robyn Wiegman Part One. Theorizing the Lesbian Postmodern 2. Racing the Lesbian, Dodging White Critics, by Sagri Dhairyam 3. Lesbians and Lyotard: Legitimation and the Politics of the Name, by Judith Roof 4. Refiguring Lesbian Desire, by Elizabeth Grosz 5. The Postmodern Lesbian Position: On Our Backs, by Colleen Lamos 6. Irigaray's Female Symbolic in the Making of Chicana Lesbian Sitios y Lenguas (Sites and Discourses), by Emma Perez 7. Lesbian Bodies in the Age of (Post) Mechanical Reproduction, by Cathy Griggers Part Two. Textual and Performative Strategies 8. Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Postmodern, by Laura Doan 9. Inverts and Hybrids: Lesbian Rewritings of Sexual and Racial Identities, by Judith Raiskin 10. Almost Blue: Policing Lesbian Desire in Internal Affairs, by Dana A. Heller 11. We Girls Can Do Anything, Right Barbie? Lesbian Consumption in Postmodern Circulation, by Erica Rand 12. F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity, by Judith Halberstam 13. The Butch Femme Fatale, by Terry Brown 14. Sandra Bernhard: Lesbian Postmodern or Modern Postlesbian?, by Jean Walton
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: pbk ISBN 9780231084116
Description
This volume of essays examines a realm as yet untouched in literary and cultural criticism and gender theory; a specifically lesbian postmodern. The essays trace, on the one hand, how some lesbian cultural theory and production foregrounds a politics of difference and marginality and thereby critiques the dominance of patriarchal and heterosexual hegemony through a variety of postmodern strategies and techniques. on the other hand, some essays note how a postmodern aesthetic, with its valorization of difference, sexual plurality, and gender blurring, assists lesbian cultural production. In the opening section, contributors scrutinize the shifting definitions of the terms lesbian and postmodern and explore the potential, as well as the danger, engendered by this new conceptual territory. Subsequent essays turn toward literary and visual representation and popular culture to discern how a lesbian postmodern might enable an interventionist or transformative politics.
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