An enlightening, entertaining look at what the term lesbian really
meansand what it means to be a lesbian Twenty-First Century Lesbian
Studies focuses on the field's institutionalization into the
humanities and social sciences, examining how the term lesbian is
used in activist, community, and cultural contexts, and how its use
impacts the lives of women who have chosen it as an identity. The
book's contributors include many of the world's foremost experts in
lesbian studies, as well as scholars whose primary research is in
bisexuality, transsexuality and transgender, intersex, and queer
theory. The innovative essays touch on five individual
themesGenealogies, Readings, Theories, Identities, and Locationsas
they explore the past, present, and future of lesbian studies.
Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies places the term lesbian at the
center of analysis, whether as a concept, a category, an identity,
a political position, or an object choice. The book's cutting-edge
essays examine the various meanings of lesbian; the risks taken by
women who live and/or act, write, and speak as lesbians; current
genealogical myths; and the lives, studies, and activism of
lesbians who represent a range of geographical and historical
contexts. The book presents research produced outside the United
States/United Kingdom, two places which tend to dominate the field,
and essays that focus on areas, such as medieval studies, that are
often ignored in theoretical discussions. Twenty-First Century
Lesbian Studies considers these questions: does the term lesbian
still have relevance as an identity descriptor or political
position? who does lesbian include and/or exclude? how does
intersectional thinking impact the way we formulate lesbian
identities? are we now post-lesbian? what, if anything, defines the
field of lesbian studies? what is the current state of the field?
what is the possible future of the field? what current topics
should be most important to practitioners? how is work that falls
under the lesbian studies umbrella connected to efforts in the
areas of feminism, LGBT, intersex, and queer straight studies? and
many more Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies is an enlightening,
entertaining, and essential read for academics and students working
in all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and for
the lesbian/queer population, in general.
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