Straight Studies Modified: Lesbian Interventions in the Academy
Gauges the impact lesbians have made within higher education in the last twenty years or so in disciplines ranging from geography, linguistics, biology, information technology (IT) and the law to health studies, philosophy, cultural, theatre and film studies, and including lesbian studies itself. In chapters by lesbians from Australia, Canada, the UK and the US, this remarkable degree of lesbian presence across the academy is subjected to a rigorous critique by the contributors to this volume...
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Gauges the impact lesbians have made within higher education in the last twenty years or so in disciplines ranging from geography, linguistics, biology, information technology (IT) and the law to health studies, philosophy, cultural, theatre and film studies, and including lesbian studies itself. In chapters by lesbians from Australia, Canada, the UK and the US, this remarkable degree of lesbian presence across the academy is subjected to a rigorous critique by the contributors to this volume who analyze issues such as the notion of specifically lesbian knowledge in various academic disciplines, the impact of lesbian feminism and of queer on the emergence of lesbians within higher education and the problematic of incorporating lesbian studies within the academy. From the downright pessimistic to the seriously celebratory, contributors interrogate the effects lesbians as activists, teachers and researchers have had, and continue to have, on changing disciplines and the academy.
Notes on ContributorsIntroduction11'There's Nowt So Queer as Folk': Lesbian Cultural Studies82Negotiating the Narrow Straits of Education243Lesbian Law, Lesbian Legal Theory394Born Queer? Lesbians Interrogate Biology575Now You See Her, Now You Don't: The Lesbian in Theatre Studies716She Must Be Theorizing Things: Fifteen Years of Lesbian Film Criticism, 1981-96867Coming in the Classroom: Explicitly Sexualized Lesbian and Gay Representations in the Academy1028Dyke Geographies: All Over the Place1159'We Are Family': Lesbians in Literature13010Revolting Lesbians in the Politics Department14211Lesbians and Psychology: Straightening Us Out?15712'Friends', Feminists and Sexual Outlaws: Lesbianism and British History16813Queering the Master Discourse: Lesbians and Philosophy18414Sexuality and Computing: Transparent Relations19715Healing the Invisible Body: Lesbian Health Studies21216Linguistics: The Impenetrable Paradigm, or Where Were You Two When They Passed Out the Penes?228Index237
