Cross-purposes

Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance

Author: Dana Alice Heller
ISBN: 9780253210845

The fifteen essays collected in this volume stage a long-overdue critical examination of the history, current condition, and evolving shape of lesbian alliances with U.S. feminists. The contributors to Cross Purposes: Lesbian Studies, Feminist Studies, and the Limits of Alliance are situated in multiple and sometimes contradictory ways within the interrelated fields of lesbian and gay studies, womens studies, and queer theory. Their mutual purpose is to create a forum for discussion of the strengths, risks, and limits of the lesbian alliance with feminism at a time when the former is defining its own disciplinary space within queer studies, while the latter continues to question the presumed coherence of its foundational category, women. This collection will explore a complicated but increasingly apparent dilemma: If the social and aesthetic significance of the terms lesbian and feminist can be said to derive from the same historical projects, or if the development of lesbian studies i

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Lesbian Studies

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