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The Lesbian Postmodern

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I bought this book because Tee Corinne in her anthology of short stories "Courting Pleasure" described it as having "...broadened the parameters in which lesbian sex is discussed."

The book description and review above summarize the book nicely

Contents

1. Introduction: Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern, by Robyn Wiegman

Part One. Theorizing the Lesbian Postmodern

2. Racing the Lesbian, Dodging White Critics, by Sagri Dhairyam

3. Lesbians and Lyotard: Legitimation and the Politics of the Name, by Judith Roof

4. Refiguring Lesbian Desire, by Elizabeth Grosz

5. The Postmodern Lesbian Position: On Our Backs, by Colleen Lamos

6. Irigaray's Female Symbolic in the Making of Chicana Lesbian Sitios y Lenguas (Sites and Discourses), by Emma Perez

7. Lesbian Bodies in the Age of (Post) Mechanical Reproduction, by Cathy Griggers

Part Two. Textual and Performative Strategies

8. Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Postmodern, by Laura Doan

9. Inverts and Hybrids: Lesbian Rewritings of Sexual and Racial Identities, by Judith Raiskin

10. Almost Blue: Policing Lesbian Desire in Internal Affairs, by Dana A. Heller

11. We Girls Can Do Anything, Right Barbie? Lesbian Consumption in Postmodern Circulation, by Erica Rand

12. F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity, by Judith Halberstam

13. The Butch Femme Fatale, by Terry Brown

14. Sandra Bernhard: Lesbian Postmodern or Modern Postlesbian?, by Jean Walton

From the series Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies