Lesbian Erotics (Hardcover, New)

"A very great gift: compelling, complex, courageous, and stunning. Everyone interested in love and lust, passion and power, history and literature, will want to read Karla Jay's timely, arousing, important anthology."
--Blanche Wiesen Cook Author of "Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. I"

"Karla Jay is one of the authentic pioneers of lesbian studies. Here she brings together 16 essays on the once-taboo, now gloriously speakable' subject of lesbian sexuality. Illuminating, often funny, full of thought and emotion and a continuous, speculative intellectual energy, the essays tell a fascinating collective story about lesbian desires, past and present, and the controversial places of female homosexuality in modern society."
--Terry Castle, Author of "The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture"

The question of whether lesbians have sex, how they have sex, and when they began having sex has long obsessively preoccupied the heterosexual imagination. Today, discussions of lesbian sex abound with such terms as romantic friendships, stealth lesbians, and genitally sexual. As we approach the end of the twentieth century, lesbian sexuality remains hotly contested ground. What exactly qualifies as lesbian sex? What is the relationship, if any, between lesbian erotica and heterosexual pornography? How did the issue of sex in lesbian communities come to be such a fiercely debated subject?

"Lesbian Erotics" is the first anthology to investigate the cultural production of sexually charged images of lesbians in film, law, literature, and popular culture in general. The contributors address an enormous range of sexualities and fora in which these sexualities flourish. In herchapter, "Not Tonight, Dear, I'm Deconstructing a Headache: Confessions of a Lesbian Sex Therapist," Marny Hall illustrates how difficult some women find it to maintain erotic tension in lesbian relationships. Elizabeth Meese grapples with increasingly complex sexual identities in cyperspace. Kitty Tsui, cover model for "On Our Backs," relays how she developed her own body into an art form in order to combat stereotypes of passive and invisible Asian women.

This work, as Karla Jay writes in the introduction, invites readers to consider the implications, variations, and complexities of lesbian erotics. In the end, it is our sexual lives that mark us as outlaws. Therefore, we need to investigate and engage representations of our sexuality to define for ourselves, if we so choose, the scope, shape, and permutations of lesbian erotics.

General

Imprint:	New York University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series
Release date:	April 1995
First published:	April 1995
Authors:	Karla Jay
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	302
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8147-4221-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-8147-4221-1
Barcode:	9780814742211

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!