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Lesbian Rites - Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community (Hardcover, Remastered)
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Lesbian Rites - Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community (Hardcover, Remastered)
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Explore affirmation and coping rituals for lesbian singles,
couples, and communities! This pioneering book is a
multidisciplinary compilation of scholarship addressing lesbians,
the rituals in their lives, and the meaning and impact of those
rituals for the women involved and the people and communities
around them. It offers a diverse range of perspectives on what it
means to be a lesbian, what ritual is, what it means to enact a
ritual, and how we can understand lesbian ritual experiences.
Lesbian Rites: Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community presents
five explorations of ritual that bring forth themes of
lesbian-centered social change. In Death's Midwife, Sharon Jaffe
creates a narrative that illustrates the power of ritual to
reconcile straight and gay, Christian and Pagan, in end-of-life
situations. Next, Ruth Barrett's exploration of Dianic traditions
provides a brief history of the importance of Goddess-worship to
radical lesbian feminists, and uses those traditions to create
life-course rituals. Marla Brettschneider's Ritual Encounters of
the Queer Kind challenges notions of a static lesbian self and
instead reworks Judaism and anarchist politics to propose rituals
of continuous becoming. Krista McQueeney then analyzes the
paradoxes of a lesbian commitment ceremony held within a
gay-affirmative African-American congregation in the southern
United States. Elizabeth Suter and editor Ramona Faith Oswald use
exploratory survey data to examine how lesbian couples may use name
changing as a strategy to claim family status. In addition, Lesbian
Rites also includes two chapters that examine how lesbians have
been compromised, if not harmed, by the ritualization of
heterosexism and homophobia. The first is an insightful analysis of
the community response to the feminist retreat known as Camp Sister
Spirit. In this chapter, Kate Greene uses Mary Daly's seven
patterns of sado-ritual syndrome to show how the people opposed to
the camp were organized to uphold heterosexual patriarchy through
an obsession with purity that defined the camp as a refuge for
immorality. The second chapter on this subject reviews the editor's
own experiences of being hidden and devalued at heterosexual family
weddings.
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