246 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Neither women's studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical or political base for lesbian scholarship. Lesbian Studies: Setting and Agenda aim to promote lesbian studies as an academic and political approach to both gender and the erotic, and to clarify the damaging influence of heterosexism across a range of disciplines. Drawing on feminism and queer theory, Tamsin... Read more
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
Biography
Tamsin Wilton is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
