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Authors: Claudia Card
ISBN-13: 9780253208996, ISBN-10: 0253208998
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: December 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Claudia Card

CLAUDIA CARD, Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Affiliate in Women's Studies and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the editor of Feminist Ethics and the author of essays in numerous journals, including Signs, Hypatia, Lesbian Ethics, and Philosophical Review.

Book Synopsis

"Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy contains many illuminating discussions (of S/M sex, lesbian ethics, lesbian desire, bisexuality), and includes a useful bibliography of lesbian criticism." — Passion

"This new collection edited by Claudia Card includes important articles of interest to feminist philosophy relating to lesbian feminist issues and ethics." — Ethics

"... a fun and engaging conceptual romp." — Journal of the History of Sexuality

These essays explore diverse positive understandings of "lesbian philosophy," from contested sexual behaviors such as pornography and sadomasochism to the meaning of "lesbianism." Editor Claudia Card has also included an up-to-date bibliography of lesbian philosophy and related works.

Table of Contents

What Is Lesbian Philosophy? A New Introduction
Jeffner Allen: A Lesbian Portrait3
Lesbian Slip11
2:00 AM, Valentine's Morning
Est et Non: The Dream Body
For Sandra
The Feminist Existentialist State Song
The Answers in the Back: A Song
On Borderlands/La Frontera: An Interpretive Essay27
Not Lesbian Philosophy34
Jewish Lesbian Writing: A Review Essay41
The Feminist Sexuality Debates and the Transformation of the Political51
Sadomasochism and Exclusion64
Audre Lorde's (Nonessentialist) Lesbian Eros81
Queer Ethics: or, The Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics98
Male Lesbians and the Postmodernist Body112
Ritual Abuse: Making Connections135
In Praise of Blame144
Realizing Love and Justice: Lesbian Ethics in the Upper and Lower Case163
Mother: The Legal Domestication of Lesbian Existence186
Why Lesbian Ethics?199
Lesbian Ethics and the Journal Lesbian Ethics: A Review210
Lesbian Connections: Simone de Beauvoir and Feminism217
Selected Bibliography of Lesbian Philosophy and Related Works241
Notes on Contributors253
Index257

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