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Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation
Nominee:Lambda Literary Award -Lesbian Studies (1997)
Honor Book:Stonewall Book Award -Nonfiction (1998)
In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein adds an essential chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a revolutionary generation of feminists and its successors. Beginning with the stories of thirty women who came of age at the climax of the 1970s women's movement - many of whom defined lesbianism as a form of resistance to dominant gender and sexual norms - Stein explores the complex issues of identity that these women confronted as they defined themselves in relation to their communities and to society at large.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Apr 2nd, 1997
- Pages: 252
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.92in - 5.95in - 0.67in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780520206748
- Categories: • LGBTQ+ Studies - Lesbian Studies• Gender Studies
About the Author
Arlene Stein is Professor of Sociology and a member of the graduate faculty of the Women's and Gender Studies program at Rutgers.
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Praise for this book
"This is a nuanced, exhaustive history of a vital chapter in a period that was a coming of age in lesbian and gay political and personal consciousness. Stein's work joins Barry D. Adam's The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement (rev. ed., Twayne, 1995), Lillian Faderman's Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (Columbia University Press, 1991), Ken Plummer's Modern Homosexualities (Routledge, 1992), and others in contributing to the development of what is becoming a lesbian and gay sociological canon."-- "American Journal of Sociology"
"Stein presents a clear, accessible discussion of the politics of cultural feminism and lesbian separatism. . . . [Sex and Sensibility is a] thought-provoking contribution to the expanding research literature on lesbians. . . . [Stein] illuminates consequential connections between sexuality and gender."-- "Gender and Society"
"By highlighting the complexity of sexual identity as an individual, cultural, and political project, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of sexuality. But it is also a carefully crafted and compelling history of lesbian feminism in the United States since Stonewall that should be read by anyone interested in the long-term significance of lesbian feminism, especially its contribution to contemporary queer and poststructural debates concerning the fluidity of gender and sexuality"-- "Contemporary Sociology"
"Stein has done an important service by reminding us of the radical nature of the lesbian-feminist vision and of the legacy inherited by today's queer movement. Lesbian feminists opened the way for the critique of gender and sexuality that underlies queer performance. Many of the contributors to Femme acknowledge this debt. They expand the conversation by forcing us to acknowledge femme as another critique of femininity, a mode of resistance that acknowledges the persistence of gender while demanding respect for powerful women with queer desires."-- "Women's Review of Books"