Is Lesbian Identity Obsolete?

In Conversation with Queer and Trans Perspectives
Herausgeber: Hagai, Ella Ben

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Produktbeschreibung

This cross-disciplinary book engages with the provocation, "Is lesbian identity obsolete?". In this volume, researchers offer diverse perspectives on the question of lesbian identity past, present, and future. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781032442556
• ISBN-10: 1032442557
• Artikelnr.: 71627118

Autorenporträt

Ella Ben Hagai is Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton, USA. Trained in Psychology and Anthropology, her research focuses on processes that lead individuals who are members of different social groups (e.g., class, ethnic, religious) to develop a shared political consciousness that supports equal distribution of resources across groups. Her theoretical work examines the intersections between trans* and queer theory and recent psychological research on gender and sexuality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Is lesbian identity obsolete? In Conversation with Queer and
Trans Perspectives 1. Shifting inclusions: Identities and spaces of
political lesbianism in Montreal from 1970 to 2020 2. "I was returning to
see if the ghosts were still astirring": Southern lesbian reflexivity as
social movement in Feminary (1979-1982) 3. Between mother and daughter:
Brown erotics and sacred notes 4. The institutionalization of queer theory:
Where has lesbian criticism gone? 5. "Somos contra la 'queer-ificacíon'
"/"We reject the queer-ification of lesbianism": Lesbian political identity
and anti-queer politics among Mexican lesbians and queer Chicanas-Latinas
6. Women who prefer "lesbian" to "queer": Generational continuity and
discontinuity 7. Comparing conceptions of gender, sexuality and lesbian
identity between baby boomers and millennials 8. Lesbian, feminist, TERF: A
queer attack on feminist studies 9. "Lezibian/mulezi": Adoption of
"globalized" lesbian identity and secondary self-labels among same-sex
attracted women in Harare 10. "Erase/rewind": How transgender Twitter
discourses challenge and (re)politicize lesbian identities 11. Toward a
historiography of the lesbian transsexual, or the TERF's nightmare 12.
Learning butch: Tracing lesbian and trans becoming in the classroom 13.
Lesbian vitality: A provocation 14. Is lesbian identity obsolete? Some
(limited) answers and further questions from a unique philology of human
behavioral science perspective 15. Willful lives: Self-determination in
lesbian and trans feminisms