Sexual subjects
Subtitle: lesbians, gender, and psychoanalysis
By: Adria E. Schwartz.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Lesbians -- Identity.; Lesbianism -- Psychological aspects.; Gender identity.; Feminist theory.; Women and psychoanalysis.
Description: "Sexual Subjects, a psychoanalytic book informed by gender theory, queer theory and feminism, addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians in the postmodern age. Adria Schwartz masterfully intertwines clinical anecdotes with engaging theoretical questions that examine the construction of important categories of identity - woman, feminist, mother, lesbian, and homo/hetero/bisexual.

Schwartz also addresses specific issues which are problematic but nonetheless meaningful to self-identified lesbians such as roles in gender play, lesbian "bed death," and raising non-traditional families. Written from psychoanalytic and postmodern perspective, this book is a significant contribution to the work done on the conceptualization of lesbian sexuality and identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.