Unpacking Queer Politics
Subtitle: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780745628387
Subjects: Lesbian Studies; Lesbians; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; Social Science; Sociology; Political activity; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Gay Studies; FEMINISM; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Gay liberation movement; Lesbian feminism
First sentence: Today many young lesbians and gay men will call themselves 'queer' without a second thought.
Description: "Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics." "The book concludes by arguing that precisely the commitment to equality in relationships and sex that has been so important to lesbian feminists, and so excoriated in much of queer theory, should form the basis of a social transformation. In this way lesbians should be seen as the vanguard of social change."--Jacket.