| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Claiming a Queer Feminism; 1. Are the Lips a Grave?; 2. There Is No Gomorrah: Narrative Ethics in Feminist and Queer Theory; 3. Foucalt's Fist; 4. Queer Victory, Feminist Defeat? Sodomy and Rape in Lawrence v. Texas; 5. One-Handed Reading; 6. Queer Lesbian Silence: Colette Reads Proust; 7. What If Hagar and Sarah Were Lovers?; 8. After Sex; Afterword: Queer Lives in the Balance; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault's ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference. Through this theoretical l. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Feminist theory. |
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Queer theory.
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Queer theory. |
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Sex.
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Sex. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Feminist theory. |
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Queer theory. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Huffer, Lynne. Are the Lips a Grave? : A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 |
| ISBN |
0231535775 (electronic book) |
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9780231535779 (electronic book) |
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9780231164160 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231164165 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231164177 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0231164173 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40022889539 |
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