Un/popular culture
Subtitle: lesbian writing after the sex wars
By: Kathleen Martindale.
Series: SUNY series, identities in the classroom
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism.; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Lesbians' writings, American -- Study and teaching.; Lesbians -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Lesbians in literature.; Sex in literature.
Other titles: Unpopular culture; Popular culture
Description: Theorizing lesbian, Kathleen Martindale writes, is like embarking on terra incognita. In this book, Martindale offers her lucidly written analysis as a guide through the complex and provocative terrain of lesbian literary and cultural theory.

Using the publication of Adrienne Rich's Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence and the outbreak of the American sex wars as a starting point, Martindale traces the emergence of lesbian postmodernism and how lesbian-feminism changed from a popular to an unpopular culture and from a political vanguard into a cultural neo-avant garde.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-212) and index.