Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian
In Femininity Played Straight, Biddy Martin traces the changing relations of lesbianism and feminist theory from the late 1970s to the present. These sparkling essays argue for accounts of sexuality, gender and subjectivity that make lesbianism intelligible and important, for lesbians and non-lesbians alike.\ Moving between theoretical and autobiographical modes, Biddy Martin brings different kinds of writing to bear upon one another. At a theoretical level, her work takes issue with...
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In Femininity Played Straight, Biddy Martin traces the changing relations of lesbianism and feminist theory from the late 1970s to the present. These sparkling essays argue for accounts of sexuality, gender and subjectivity that make lesbianism intelligible and important, for lesbians and non-lesbians alike.Moving between theoretical and autobiographical modes, Biddy Martin brings different kinds of writing to bear upon one another. At a theoretical level, her work takes issue with postmodern theory, defending instead the role of psychoanalytic criticism. She argues for the continued validity of critical modes that do not abandon the unconscious in seeking to understand the relation of subjectivity to language. In so doing, she addresses the work of writers, thinkers and activists as varied as Mary Daly, Michel Foucault, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Sigmund Freud, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Audre Lorde, Judith Butler, and Joan Copjec.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction1Ch. 1The Hobo, the Fairy, and the Quarterback33Ch. 2Extraordinary Homosexuals and the Fear of Being Ordinary45Ch. 3Sexualities Without Genders and Other Queer Utopias71Ch. 4Sexual Practice and Changing Lesbian Identities97Ch. 5Teaching Feminist Theory125Ch. 6Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s]137Ch. 7Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to do with It?163Ch. 8Feminism, Criticism and Foucault185Ch. 9Feminist Metaphysics: A Critique of Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology215Notes225Index243
