Authors: Claudia Card
ISBN-13: 9780253208996, ISBN-10: 0253208998
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: December 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
"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.
What Is Lesbian Philosophy? A New Introduction | ||
Jeffner Allen: A Lesbian Portrait | 3 | |
Lesbian Slip | 11 | |
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 Essay | 27 | |
Not Lesbian Philosophy | 34 | |
Jewish Lesbian Writing: A Review Essay | 41 | |
The Feminist Sexuality Debates and the Transformation of the Political | 51 | |
Sadomasochism and Exclusion | 64 | |
Audre Lorde's (Nonessentialist) Lesbian Eros | 81 | |
Queer Ethics: or, The Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics | 98 | |
Male Lesbians and the Postmodernist Body | 112 | |
Ritual Abuse: Making Connections | 135 | |
In Praise of Blame | 144 | |
Realizing Love and Justice: Lesbian Ethics in the Upper and Lower Case | 163 | |
Mother: The Legal Domestication of Lesbian Existence | 186 | |
Why Lesbian Ethics? | 199 | |
Lesbian Ethics and the Journal Lesbian Ethics: A Review | 210 | |
Lesbian Connections: Simone de Beauvoir and Feminism | 217 | |
Selected Bibliography of Lesbian Philosophy and Related Works | 241 | |
Notes on Contributors | 253 | |
Index | 257 |