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10 of the Best Books and Articles on: Lesbian Feminism

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Identity Politics: Lesbian Feminism and the Limits of Community » Read Now
by Shane Phelan. 216 pgs.

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Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory » Read Now
by Linda Garber. 262 pgs.

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"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current factionalism. In an...
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"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current factionalism. In an eloquent challenge to the privileging of queer theory in the academy, Garber calls for recognition of the historical -- and intellectually significant -- role of lesbian poets as theorists of lesbian identity and activism. The connections, Garber shows, are most clearly seen when looking at the pivotal work of working-class lesbians/lesbians of color whose articulations of multiple, simultaneous identity positions and activist politics both belong to lesbian feminism and presage queer theory. Identity Poetics includes a critical overview of recent historical writing about the women's and lesbian-feminist movements of the 1970s; discussions of the works of Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldúa; and, finally, a chapter on the rise and hegemony of queer theory within lesbigay studies.
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Cultural Politics and Social Movements (Chap. 8 "Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism") » Read Now
by Marcy Darnovsky, Barbara Epstein, Richard Flacks. 384 pgs.

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Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda (Chap. 5 "Orthodoxy within Disobedience: Lesbians and Feminists") » Read Now
by Tamsin Wilton. 236 pgs.

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Separatism and Women's Community (Chap. Three "Lesbian Separatism and Revolution through Community") » Read Now
by Dana R. Shugar. 244 pgs.

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The energy spent on all sides of debates about women's separatism demonstrates the vitality of separatism as an important issue. Excited by the prospect that changes in their personal lives could reverberate through the nation, many women have organized rural communes and urban business collectives...
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The energy spent on all sides of debates about women's separatism demonstrates the vitality of separatism as an important issue. Excited by the prospect that changes in their personal lives could reverberate through the nation, many women have organized rural communes and urban business collectives, putting ideas into practice. Separatism and Women's Community reviews debates in separatist theory, historical narratives by members of separatist collectives, and utopian novels that envision how collectives might be formed. Shugar compares the ideas and proposals of theorists - including Robin Morgan, Shulamith Firestone, Joyce Cheney, Joan Nestle, Ti-Grace Atkinson, and the Radicalesbianswith the experience of women from collectives as diverse as Cell 16, the Combahee River Collective, the Gutter Dyke Collective, the Seattle Collective, the Bloodroot Collective, and the Lavender Woman Collective of Chicago. Despite the attempts to connect action and thought, many women were ill-prepared for the problems they found in collective life. Women who theorized that oppression based on difference was a man-made phenomenon were confronted by other women who challenged their racism, classism, or homophobia. The community had to respond to these confrontations in ways that would strengthen, rather than destroy, their tentative connections with other women.
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Sexual Democracy: Women, Oppression, and Revolution (Chap. Seven "Is There a Lesbian Culture?") » Read Now
by Ann Ferguson. 304 pgs.

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The Ideological Effects of a Failed Constitutive Rhetoric: The Co-option of the Rhetoric of White Lesbian Feminism, in Women's Studies in Communication » Read Now
by Helen Tate. 31 pgs.

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Relations among Dimensions of Feminism and Internalized Heterosexism in Lesbians and Bisexual Women, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Dawn M. Szymanski. 15 pgs.

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The Return of Butch and Femme: A Phenomenon in Lesbian Sexuality of the 1980s and 1990s, in Journal of the History of Sexuality » Read Now
by Lillian Faderman. 19 pgs.

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A Lesbian Feminist Subscale for the Feminist Perspectives Scale, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Jane M. Simoni, Nancy M. Henley, Cheryl S. Christie. 18 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library