Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies (Hardcover)

Introduction (Noreen Giffney and Katherine ODonnell) SECTION I GENEALOGIES: CONTEXTUALIZING THE FIELD Lesbian Studies After The Lesbian Postmodern: Toward a New Genealogy (Laura Doan) A Lesbian-Feminist Journey Through Queer Nation (Bonnie Zimmerman) A Seat at the Table: Some Unpalatable Thoughts on Shame, Envy and Hate in Institutional Cultures (Sally R. Munt) SECTION II READINGS: DESIRING FICTIONS Queer Paradox/Paradoxical Queer: Anne Garrétas Pas un jour (2002) (Lucille Cairns) Being Faithful: The Ethics of Homoaffection in Antonia Forests Marlow Novels (Caroline Gonda) Fragmented Identities, Frustrated Politics: Transsexuals, Lesbians and Queer (Katherine Johnson) SECTION III THEORIES: DISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES Of Hyacinths (Michèle Aina Barale) Feminist Theorizing as Transposed Autobiography (renée c. hoogland) Post-Lesbian? Not Yet (Toni A. H. McNaron) Through the Looking Glass: A 70s Lesbian Feminist Considers Queer Theory (Margaret Cruikshank) Rescuing Lesbian Camp (Clare Hemmings) Refusing to Make Sense: Mapping the In-Coherences of Trans (J. Bobby Noble) SECTION IV IDENTITIES: THINKING INTERSECTIONALLY Sister Outsider: An Enduring Vision Embracing Myself, My Sister and the Other (Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes) Contesting Straights: Lesbians, Queer Heterosexuals and the Critique of Heteronormativity (Annette Schlichter) The Lesbian Community and FTMs: Détente in the Butch/FTM Borderlands (Jillian T. Weiss) Intersections of Lesbian Studies and Postcolonial Studies: One Possible Future for Class (Donna McCormack) Cal/liope in Love: The Prescientific Desires of an Apolitical Hermaphrodite (Morgan Holmes) Carved in Flesh? Inscribing Body, Identity and Desire (Kay Inckle) SECTION V LOCATIONS: TRANSLATING LESBIAN Lesbian Studies and Activism in India (Ruth Vanita) Lesbian Studies in Thailand (Jillana Enteen) Loud and Lusty Lesbian Queers: Lesbian Theory, Research and Debate in the German-Speaking Context (Antke Engel) Quare Éire (Noreen Giffney) The Un/State of Lesbian Studies: An Introduction to Lesbian Communities and Contemporary Legislation in Japan (Claire Maree) Peripheral Perspectives: Locating Lesbian Studies in Australasia (Sara MacBride-Stewart) Russian Love, or, What of Lesbian Studies in Russia? (Nadya Nartova) Queerying Borders: An Afrikan Activist Perspective (Bernedette Muthien) “Where Are the Lesbians in Chaucer?” Lack, Opportunity and Female Homoeroticism in Medieval Studies Today (Michelle M. Sauer) Index Reference Notes Included