Lesbian Utopics
By: Annamarie Jagose
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781315021737
Subjects: Lesbianism; Feminism; Critical theory; Feminist theory; Lesbianisme; Féminisme; Théorie critique; Théorie féministe; Critical theories (dialectical critiques); SOCIAL SCIENCE; Lesbian Studies; Media Studies
Description: "In Lesbian Utopics, Annamarie Jagose surveys the construction of the lesbian and finds her in a cultural space that is both everywhere and, of all places, nowhere. The "lesbian", in other words, is symbolically central, yet culturally marginal."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Lesbians Are Elsewhere; 2 Remedy and Poison Irigaray and the Lesbian Body; 3 Space, Skin, Spiral The Aerial Letter and its Holographic Projection; 4 Playing with the Closet Jeux d'occultation and Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons; 5 ""The Heart of the Law"" Genre, Sexual Exchange and the Proper Name in Working Hot; 6 Slash and Suture The Border's Figuration of Colonialism, Phallocentrism, and Homophobia in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza; 7 Cindy Crawford Concludes; Notes; Works Cited; Index.