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"Informed by gender theory, ""queer"" theory and feminism, this psychoanalytic text addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians and sexuality in the postmodern age. Using clinical anecdotes to demonstrate theory, the author questions the construction of certain categories of identity and reference - woman, feminine, lesbian, homo/hetero/bisexual, mother - while examining specific issues which are problematic yet meaningful to self-identified lesbians, such as the butch/femme roles."

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Sexual Subjects weaves the diverse strands of theory currently grappling with sex and gender--relational psychoanalysis, feminism and queer theory, postmodernism--into a highly readable and lucid account of lesbian sexuality. To this well-spun web of theory Schwartz adds the fine-tuned wisdom of the clinician deeply immersed in the subtle issues of contemporary psychoanalytic practice. Schwartz's intelligence will speak to analysts and readers of theory alike. -- Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love, Like Subjects, Love Objects, and Shadow of the Other. Sexual Subjects weaves the diverse strands of theory currently grappling with sex and gender--relational psychoanalysis, feminism and queer theory, postmodernism--into a highly readable and lucid account of lesbian sexuality. To this well-spun web of theory Schwartz adds the fine-tuned wisdom of the clinician deeply immersed in the subtle issues of contemporary psychoanalytic practice. Schwartz's intelligence will speak to analysts and readers of theory alike. -- Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love, Like Subjects, Love Objects, and Shadow of the Other.

Sexual Subjects weaves the diverse strands of theory currently grappling with sex and gender--relational psychoanalysis, feminism and queer theory, postmodernism--into a highly readable and lucid account of lesbian sexuality. To this well-spun web of theory Schwartz adds the fine-tuned wisdom of the clinician deeply immersed in the subtle issues of contemporary psychoanalytic practice. Schwartz's intelligence will speak to analysts and readers of theory alike. <br>-Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love, Like Subjects, Love Objects, and Shadow of the Other. <br>

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Adria E. Schwartz is Supervising Analyst at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is on the faculties of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Mt. Sinai Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry. She has a private practice in New York City.

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