The Lesbian Postmodern
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...
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This collection of essays explores the shifting definitions of the terms lesbian and postmodern, the lesbian in contemporary fiction and Hollywood film, and the pitfalls and rewards of the recent lesbian theory.Elizabeth MeeseAs an exploration of the relation between the lesbian, conceived within the context of cutting-edge work on gender theory, and postmodernism, a term also requiring critical scrutiny, these essays generate a rich and complex arena for the study of both terms. This collection offers new work of interest to scholars in feminism, postmodernism, critical and gender theory, gay and lesbian studies, popular culture, and literature.
PrefaceContributors1Introduction: Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern12Racing the Lesbian, Dodging White Critics253Lesbians and Lyotard: Legitimation and the Politics of the Name474Refiguring Lesbian Desire675The Postmodern Lesbian Position: On Our Backs856Irigaray's Female Symbolic in the Making of Chicana Lesbian Sitios y Lenguas (Sites and Discourses)1047Lesbian Bodies in the Age of (Post)Mechanical Reproduction1188Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Postmodern1379Inverts and Hybrids: Lesbian Rewritings of Sexual and Racial Identities15610Almost Blue: Policing Lesbian Desire in Internal Affairs17311We Girls Can Do Anything, Right Barbie? Lesbian Consumption in Postmodern Circulation18912F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity21013The Butch Femme Fatale22914Sandra Bernhard: Lesbian Postmodern or Modern Postlesbian?244Index263
\ Elizabeth MeeseAs an exploration of the relation between the lesbian, conceived within the context of cutting-edge work on gender theory, and postmodernism, a term also requiring critical scrutiny, these essays generate a rich and complex arena for the study of both terms. This collection offers new work of interest to scholars in feminism, postmodernism, critical and gender theory, gay and lesbian studies, popular culture, and literature.\ \
