Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy

Explores diverse positive understandings of "lesbian philosophy." This book examines the dualisms and methods of traditional Euro-American philosophy, and offers creative experiments in wisdom-seeking. It also examines areas of contested sexual behaviors, such as pornography and sadomasochism.

"Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy" explores diverse positive understandings of "lesbian philosophy." Tangren Alexander and Joyce Trebilcot critique the dualisms and methods of traditional Euro-American philosophy and offer creative experiments in wisdom-seeking; Bat-Ami Bar On and Lorena Leigh Saxe examine areas of contested sexual behaviors, such as pornography and sadomasochism; Elizabeth Deumer and Jacquelyn Zita take up the issue of constructing the meaning of "lesbian"; and Chris Cuomo, Barbara Houston, Ruthann Robson, Sarah Lucia Hoagland, and Kathleen Martindale and Martha Saunders discuss facets of lesbian community and responsibility. Special features include: Jacquelyn Zita's portrait of Jeffner Allen's creative lesbian philosophy, Mar'a Lugones' study of Gloria Anzald a's "Borderlands/La Frontera", Naomi Scheman's reflections on Jewish lesbian writing, and Ruth Ginzberg's interpretation of Audre Lorde's conception of eros. Editor Claudia Card has also included an up-to-date bibliography of lesbian philosophy and related works.

Claudia Card
What Is Lesbian Philosophy?
A New Introduction
LESBIAN CREATIVITY
Jacquelyn N. Zita
Jeffner Allen: A Lesbian Portrait
Tangren Alexander
Lesbian Slip
2:00am, ValentineOs Morning
Est et Non:
The Dream Body
For Sandra
The Feminist Existentialist State Song
The Answers in the Back:
A Song
Maria Lugones
On Borderlands/La Frontera:
An Interpretive Essay
Joyce Trebilcot
Not Lesbian Philosophy
Naomi Scheman
Jewish Lesbian Writing:
A Review Essay
THE SEX WARS
Bat-Ami Bar On
The Feminist Sexuality Debates and the Transformation of the Political
Lorena Leigh Saxe
Sadomasochism and Exclusion
CONSTRUCTING OLESBIANO
Ruth Ginzberg
Audre LordeOs (nonessentialist)
Lesbian Eros
Elisabeth D. Daumer
Queer Ethics
or The Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics
Jacquelyn N. Zita
Male Lesbians and the Postmodernist Body
LESBIAN COMMUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
Chris Cuomo
Ritual Abuse:
Making Connections
Barbara Houston
In Praise of Blame
Kathleen Martindale and Martha Saunders
Realizing Love and Justice:
Lesbian Ethics in the Upper and Lower Case
Ruthann Robson
Mother:
The Legal Domestication of Lesbian Existence
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
Why Lesbian Ethics?
Claudia Card
Lesbian Ethics and the Journal Lesbian Ethics:
A Review
RECLAIMING LESBIAN HERSTORY
Margaret A. Simons
Lesbian Connections:
Simone de Beauvoir and Feminism
Claudia Card
Selected Bibliography of Lesbian Philosophy and Related Works
Notes on Contributors
Index