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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828758903321

Autore

Wilton Tamsin

Titolo

Lesbian studies : setting an agenda / / Tamsin Wilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-134-88343-9

1-134-88344-7

0-203-41988-X

1-280-33651-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/9664

Soggetti

Gay and lesbian studies

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: lesbian what?; Deviant pedagogies: the nature of lesbian studies; The nature of the beast: what is a lesbian?; Invisible and erased: uses and abuses of history; What is this thing called? Models of sexual identity; Orthodoxy within disobedience: lesbians and feminists; Stories and storytellers: lesbian literary studies; Lesbians studying culture: studying lesbian culture; The social lesbian; Subject to control: lesbians and the state; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An academic approach to both gender and the erotic, which clarifies the damaging influence of heterosexism and examines Lesbian treatment in sociology, psychology, social policy, cultural studies, film theory and history.