scholarly journals “Thou Shalt not Lie with Mankind as with Womankind: It Is Abomination!”: Lesbian (Body-)Bildung in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees (2015)

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Cédric Courtois
Keyword(s):  
Lesbian Body

The Personal Is Archival

2021 ◽  
pp. 102-127
Author(s):  
Laura Stamm
Keyword(s):  
Body Politics ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Queer Archives ◽  
Lesbian Body ◽  
Second Wave

Chapter 4 investigates Barbara Hammer’s creation and use of queer archives to tell stories—via particular lesbians—of lesbian cultures past. The chapter’s turn to a lesbian filmmaker is an assertion that the preservationist impulse that accompanied much AIDS activism was genealogically connected to and politically aligned with feminist historiographical practice and body politics. The queer body politics of the AIDS crisis, politics rooted in the care of queer bodies, draws from the feminist politics and cinema originating in second-wave feminism. The chapter argues, then, that the lesbian body politics established in Hammer’s cinema, beginning in the 1970s, informed queer filmmakers’ activist approach to filmmaking during the AIDS crisis. Through readings of Maya Deren’s Sink (2011), Welcome to This House (2015), and Lover/Other (2006), this chapter argues that a distinctly lesbian-feminist aesthetic does not exist independently of a distinctly queer one.

Performing the Lesbian Body—The New Wave

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Julia Brosnan
Keyword(s):  
New Wave ◽  
Lesbian Body

Plastic Actions: Linguistic Strategies and Le Corps lesbien1

Hypatia ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Cope
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Monique Wittig ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Lesbian Body ◽  
Language Literature

In both her fiction and her essays on writing and feminist theory, Monique Wittig takes up and redeploys traditional themes and genres as well as recent theories of language, literature, and writing in order to force change in and through the dominant categories of thought and language. She has announced her project as one which would “do away with the category of sex” by way of reconfiguring the grammatically and conceptually enforced compulsory heterosexual order. I examine the specific linguistic mechanisms by which Wittig accomplishes this abolition of “sex” and the political/philosophical/ linguistic consequences of her “lesbianization” of language. Throughout, I aim to suggest what the political importance of The Lesbian Body as a diversified and written corpus is.

Gender Role Reversal and the Violated Lesbian Body

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa J. Hornsby
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Lesbian Body
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