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Lesbian Sex Scandals:
Sexual Practices, Identities, and Politics
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Lesbian Sex Scandals takes a look at controversies in lesbian communities over sexual practices, identity, and feminist politics. Feminist politics have often been at the heart of lesbian community and identity; yet, the blending of sexual identity and politics has led to contradictions and conflicts within lesbian communities over sexual behavior. Some leading lesbian theorists have articulated a view of lesbian identity that stands on feminist politics, rather than on the desire for sexual relationships with women; others have felt that this approach denies the history of specifically lesbian sexuality. And, while having sex with a woman may not define who is a lesbian, certainly sexual practices have been at the heart of the controversies over who is not a lesbian. Lesbian Sex Scandals will help you understand these conflicts and suggests ways of redefining sexual identity and community.
The contributors to Lesbian Sex Scandals address important, real issues of sexual practice and sexual politics. These 14 scholars represent a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy, English, psychology, theology, performance studies, communications, critical studies, and women's studies. Specifically, they explore debates around:
•S & M
•transsexuality
•Butch/Femme relationships
•sex with men
•bisexuality
•pornography
•safe sex
•penetrative sex acts
•queer theory
Lesbian Sex Scandals will help you recognize the importance of embracing the diversity of sexuality, pleasure, and desire as a core value of lesbianism. You will also see how adopting a “universalizing” approach, which emphasizes the importance of sexual freedom across the spectrum of identity, will give lesbians a larger and stronger community base from which to challenge oppression.
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
Eroticizing 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
“Grounded in material practices, this collection explores
confrontation and coincidence among identity politics, ‘scandalous’
sexual practices, and queer theory and feminism. . . . It expands
notions of lesbian identification and lesbian community.”
Maria Pramaggiore, PhD, Assistant Professor, Film Studies, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh