Lesbian Sex Scandals »

Lesbian Sex Scandals addresses the contradictory separation of lesbian sexuality from lesbian identity. Readers will gain unique insight into the blending of feminism and lesbianism and see how it has sometimes failed in acknowledging the reality of lesbian sexual experiences. As the contributors to this collection document, sexual practices are often at the core of lesbian sexual identities, communities, and politics, but are usually down-played when exploring lesbian identity.

The contributors to Lesbian Sex Scandals address important, real issues of sexual practice and sexual politics. You'll find that they explore important experiences, questions, and directions concerning lesbian sexuality, giving you keen insight into the possibility for renewed lesbian sexualities.

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. Hopefully, you will come away inspired to demand that sexuality studies discontinue the current trend of approaching sexual identifies and communities without regard to actual sex.

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With roots in a Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference at American U., 14 diverse perspectives are presented on issues in what the editor terms the "lesbian continuum" of sexual identity/ experience and the sometimes clashing interface with feminism. Titles include: Deconstructing the lesbian identities of Ellen Morgan/Ellen DeGeneres; Eroticizing safe sex; and Women on the edge of a dyke-otomy. Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, 1999. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.