Lesbian Erotics
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"A very great gift: compelling, complex, courageous, and stunning. Everyone interested in love and lust, passion and power, history and literature, will want to read Karla Jay's timely, arousing, important anthology."—Blanche Wiesen Cook Author of Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. I"Karla Jay is one of the authentic pioneers of lesbian studies. Here she brings together 16 essays on the once-taboo, now gloriously 'speakable' subject of lesbian sexuality. Illuminating, often funny, full of thought and emotion and a continuous, speculative intellectual energy, the essays tell a fascinating collective story about lesbian desires, past and present, and the controversial places of female homosexuality in modern society."—Terry Castle, Author of The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern CultureThe question of whether lesbians have sex, how they have sex, and when they began having sex has long obsessively preoccupied the heterosexual imagination. Today, discussions of lesbian sex abound with such terms as romantic friendships, stealth lesbians, and genitally sexual. As we approach the end of the twentieth century, lesbian sexuality remains hotly contested ground. What exactly qualifies as lesbian sex? What is the relationship, if any, between lesbian erotica and heterosexual pornography? How did the issue of sex in lesbian communities come to be such a fiercely debated subject?Lesbian Erotics is the first anthology to investigate the cultural production of sexually charged images of lesbians in film, law, literature, and popular culture in general. The contributors address an enormous range of sexualitiesand fora in which these sexualities flourish. In her chapter, Not Tonight, Dear, I'm Deconstructing a Headache: Confessions of a Lesbian Sex Therapist, Marny Hall illustrates how difficult some women find it to maintain erotic tension in lesbian relationships. Elizabeth Meese grapples with increasingly complex sexual identities in cyperspace. Kitty Tsui, cover model for On Our Backs, relays how she developed her own body into an art form in order to combat stereotypes of passive and invisible Asian women.This work, as Karla Jay writes in the introduction, invites readers to consider the implications, variations, and complexities of lesbian erotics. In the end, it is our sexual lives that mark us as outlaws. Therefore, we need to investigate and engage representations of our sexuality to define for ourselves, if we so choose, the scope, shape, and permutations of lesbian erotics.
ForewordAcknowledgmentsOn Slippery Ground: An Introduction11Not Tonight, Dear, I'm Deconstructing a Headache: Confessions of a Lesbian Sex Therapist152Pedagogy, Jurisprudence, and Finger-Fucking: Lesbian Sex in a Law School Classroom283Tongues or Fingers404Staging the Erotic535Give Joan Chen My Phone Number Anytime626Between the Sheets: My Sex Life in Literature717Camille Paglia and the Problematics of Sexuality and Subversion858Taking on the Phallus1019Recasting Receptivity: Femme Sexualities12510Clits in Court: Salome, Sodomy, and the Lesbian "Sadist"14711The Regulation of Lesbian Sexuality Through Erasure: The Case of Jennifer Saunders16412She Must Be Seeing Things Differently: The Limits of Butch/Femme18313Dracula's Daughter: Cinema, Hypnosis, and the Erotics of Lesbianism19614To Touch the Mother's C(o)untry: Siting Audre Lorde's Erotics21215Abrotica: The Lesbian Erotic and the Erotic Abject in Anais Nin's House of Incest22716Encoding Bi-Location: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Erotics of Dissimulation241For Further Reading269Contributors280
