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Title The lesbian postmodern / edited by Laura Doan
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description xiv, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Series Between men--between women
Between men--between women.
Contents 14. Sandra Bernhard: Lesbian Postmodern or Modern Postlesbian? / Jean Walton
1. Introduction: Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern / Robyn Wiegman -- 2. Racing the Lesbian, Dodging White Critics / Sagri Dhairyam -- 3. Lesbians and Lyotard: Legitimation and the Politics of the Name / Judith Roof -- 4. Refiguring Lesbian Desire / Elizabeth Grosz -- 5. The Postmodern Lesbian Position: On Our Backs / Colleen Lamos -- 6. Irigaray's Female Symbolic in the Making of Chicana Lesbian Sitios y Lenguas (Sites and Discourses) / Emma Perez -- 7. Lesbian Bodies in the Age of (Post)Mechanical Reproduction / Cathy Griggers -- 8. Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Postmodern / Laura Doan -- 9. Inverts and Hybrids: Lesbian Rewritings of Sexual and Racial Identities / Judith Raiskin -- 10. Almost Blue: Policing Lesbian Desire in Internal Affairs / Dana A. Heller -- 11. We Girls Can Do Anything, Right Barbie? Lesbian Consumption in Postmodern Circulation / Erica Rand -- 12. F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity / Judith Halberstam -- 13. The Butch Femme Fatale / Terry Brown
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Lesbians in literature.
Lesbians -- United States -- Intellectual life.
Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Author Doan, Laura L., 1951-
LC no. 94187096
ISBN 0231084102 (acid-free paper)
0231084110 (paperback)