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International Gay & Lesbian Review

Lesbian Sex Scandals: Sexual Practices, Identities, and Politics

edited by Dawn Atkins
abstract

This abstract is from the cover of the book.

Lesbian Sex Scandals was simultaneously published by Haworth Press as a special issues of Journal of Lesbian Studies, volume 3, 1999; Esther D. Rothblum, editor.

Feminists politics have often been at the heart of lesbian community and identity, yet the blending of sexual identity and politics has led to contradiction and conflicts within lesbian communities over sexual behavior. Lesbian Sex Scandals will help you understand these conflicts and suggests to you ways of redefining sexual identity and community.

Contents:

  • “Introduction: Lesbian Sex Scandals,” by Dawn Atkins
  • “To(o) Queer or Not? Queer Theory, Lesbian Community, and the Functions of Sexual Identities,” by Dana R. Shugar
  • “What Do You Call a Lesbian Who's Only Slept with Men? Answer: Ellen Morgan. Deconstructing the Lesbian Identities of Ellen Morgan and Ellen DeGeneres,” by Karen Yescavage and Jonathan Alexander
  • “To Love Women, or To Not Love Men: Chronicles of Lesbian Identification,” by Hinda Seif
  • “Without Contraries Is No Progression': S/M, Bi-nary Thinking, and the Lesbian Purity Test,” by Atara Stein
  • “Gender Role Reversal and the Violated Lesbian Body: Toward a Feminist Hermeneutic of Lesbian Sadomasochism,” by Teresa J. Hornsby
  • “The Materiality of Gender: Looking for Lesbian Bodies in Transgender History,” by Nan Alamilla Boyd
  • “Toward a Dyke Discourse: The Essentially Constructed Stonebutch Identity,” by Robin Maltz
  • “Eroticising Safe Sex: Pedagogy and Performance in Lesbian Video,” by Christie Milliken
  • “Women on the Edge of a Dyke-otomy: Confronting Subjectivity,” by Myra J. Hird and Jenz Germon
  • “Sticks and Stones,” by Sally Abrahams
  • “Lesbian Sexual Renegades?” by Julie Inness
  • “Sex Radical Communities and the Future of Sexual Ethics,” by Kathy Rudy

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