Lesbian studies : setting an agenda / Tamsin Wilton.

Neither women's studies nor lesbian and gay studies have yet been able to offer an adequate theoretical or political framework for lesbians and lesbianism. Yet such a matrix is urgently needed, because the political and social position of lesbians is increasingly complex, especially in the ligh...

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Main Author: Wilton, Tamsin.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: lesbian what?
  • 1. Deviant pedagogies: the nature of lesbian studies
  • 2. The nature of the beast: what is a lesbian?
  • 3. Invisible and erased: uses and abuses of history
  • 4. What is this thing called? Models of sexual identity
  • 5. Orthodoxy within disobedience: lesbians and feminists
  • 6. Stories and storytellers: lesbian literary studies
  • 7. Lesbians studying culture: studying lesbian culture
  • 8. The social lesbian
  • 9. Subject to control: lesbians and the state.