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A Lure of Knowledge - Lesbian Sexuality and Theory (Paperback, Revised) Loot Price: R1,020
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A Lure of Knowledge - Lesbian Sexuality and Theory (Paperback, Revised): Judith Roof

A Lure of Knowledge - Lesbian Sexuality and Theory (Paperback, Revised)

Judith Roof

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Lesbianism in literature has been dealt with rather indirectly in the past. Editors have led readers to the "artistry" of a work containing lesbianism, emphasizing instead the literary history and historical context of the work rather than the representations of lesbianism. The editor for Colette's "The Pure and the Impure, " for instance, affirms that Colette has a knowledge of a "strange sisterhood," but assures readers she has never strayed from the "normal."

In the groundbreaking "A Lure of Knowledge, " Judith Roof demonstrates that representations of lesbian sexuality occupy specific locations or positions in the arguments, subject matter, and rhetoric of Western European and American literary criticism. She examines the political context of representations: how lesbian sexuality is used as a signifier an why it appears when and where it does.

Roof argues that attempts to depict or explain lesbian sexuality spur anxieties about knowledge and identity. In reaction to and denial of these anxieties, lesbian sexuality is represented in film, literature, theory, and criticism as foreplay, as simulated heterosexuality, as erotic excess, as joking inauthenticity, as artful compromise, or as masculine mask in a specific repertoire of neutralization and evasion. Challenging the heterosexism of film theory and feminist theory, this book analyzes the rhetorical use of lesbian sexuality. Roof explores a range of discourses, from the woks of such authors as Anais Nin, Olga Broumas, Julia Kristeva, Jane Rule, Luce Iriguray, and Sigmund Freud, to films such as "Emmanuelle, Desert Hearts, Entre Nous, " and "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, " to professional tennis.

General

Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 1993
First published: May 1993
Authors: Judith Roof
Dimensions: 227 x 151 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 285
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-07487-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Lesbian studies
LSN: 0-231-07487-5
Barcode: 9780231074872

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