Feminist Review: Issue 34: Perverse Politics

BOOK COVER......Page 1
CONTENT......Page 2
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
PAT PARKER:......Page 10
References......Page 13
BRAZIL......Page 14
LETTER FROM SAO PAULO......Page 17
ISRAEL......Page 19
ITALY......Page 23
THE DE-EROTICIZATION OF WOMEN’S LIBERATION:......Page 28
Social purity movements in Britain, 1690 to the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts......Page 30
Social purity from the 1880s: a critique of Sheila Jeffreys......Page 33
Social purity in the 1980s......Page 39
Revolutionary feminism as a modern-day social purity movement......Page 40
A new course?......Page 46
Notes......Page 47
References......Page 48
A dialogue between Jewelle Gomez and Barbara Smith......Page 50
Notes......Page 57
‘The gays and lesbians issue is costing us dear’......Page 58
The example of the women’s committees: ‘In no shape or f orm a lesbian’......Page 60
The old versus the new GLC: class and sexuality......Page 62
Deteriorating relations......Page 64
Conclusion......Page 66
Suggested further reading......Page 67
Faces bare of makeup......Page 68
Scarlet starlets......Page 69
The power principle......Page 70
Aping heterosexuality?......Page 71
Roots......Page 73
Just like a man......Page 74
Identity......Page 75
Identification......Page 77
References......Page 78
BUTCH/FEMME OBSESSIONS......Page 80
Psychic mysteries......Page 81
Social meanings......Page 82
Freeing or freezing?......Page 84
Notes......Page 85
THE WILL TO REMEMBER:......Page 86
INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES......Page 93
Notes......Page 94
AUDRE LORDE:......Page 100
Mothering......Page 101
Difference and contradiction......Page 106
References......Page 113
LESBIAN TRADITION......Page 114
References......Page 118
MAPPING:......Page 120
‘No semen in the anus or vagina’......Page 122
Identities......Page 123
The power to interpret......Page 125
Sexual mapping......Page 126
Race, sexuality and AIDS......Page 128
Will lesbians talk?......Page 130
Background reading......Page 131
Introduction: lesbians and therapy......Page 134
Taking on gender identities......Page 135
Femininity—an impossible identity?......Page 137
Privileging heterosexuality within feminist psychoanalysis......Page 138
Psychoanalytic theories of female homosexuality......Page 139
Rethinking lesbianism within psychoanalysis......Page 140
The limits of a psychoanalytic account: the diversity of lesbian identities......Page 144
Difference and desire between lesbians......Page 145
Endthoughts......Page 147
References......Page 148
Pornography as an area of study......Page 150
The lesbian gaze......Page 151
Fanny Liquidates Kenni’s Stocks......Page 152
The lesbian come shot......Page 153
Dildo as f etish......Page 154
Future promises......Page 155
References......Page 156
VOYAGES OF THE VALKYRIES:......Page 158
Form and function of lesbian porn......Page 159
More orgies, fewer meetings?......Page 164
References......Page 166
REVIEWS......Page 168
Inventing Ourselves:......Page 173
LETTER......Page 176
‘Out of the Margins: Women’s Studies in the Nineties’......Page 178