Sinuosities, Lesbian Poetic Politics

Author:   Jeffner Allen
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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Pages:   200
Publication Date:   22 January 1996
Format:   Paperback
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Sinuosities, Lesbian Poetic Politics


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""Allen's work is virtually unique among American writers. It illustrates a deep knowledge of the issues raised by the postmodernists, yet she does not succumb to the playing field, constructing instead her own philosophical direction and aesthetic."" —Sarah Hoagland Jeffner Allen shapes a poetic politics that transforms textual and everyday realities. The surprising, resilient, and transformative windings of lesbian writing and lesbian lives—a poetics of sinuous movement, the turning of women to women—informs these reflections.

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Author:   Jeffner Allen
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9780253210463


ISBN 10:   0253210461
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   22 January 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments sinuosities An Introduction to Patriarchal Existentialism, A Proposal for a Way Out of Existential Patriarchy Motherhood, THe Annihilation of Women Women and Food, Feeding Ourselves Lesbian Economics The Economy of the Body in a Post-Nietzschean Era Women Who Beget Women Must Thwart Major Sophisms Poetic Politics, How the Amazons Took the Acropolis a response to a letter from Peg Simons, December 1993 to trust, to befriend, her Notes Index

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JEFFNER ALLEN is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and author of reverberations across the shimmering CASCADAS.

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