Urban amazons : lesbian feminism and beyond in the gender, sexuality, and identity battles of London / Sarah F. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Sarah F., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbian feminism--England--London.

Lesbian feminism.

Lesbians--England--London--Identity.

Lesbians.

Lesbians--Political activity--England--London.

Lesbians--Political activity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

England--London.

Physical Description:

xii, 234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

The late 1980s in London was a period of heady transition for everyone in that city, and lesbian feminists were no exception. London's radically socialist local government, the Greater London Council, had been abolished by Margaret Thatcher's administration in 1986; the 1980s boom was rapidly declining; and the feminist theories on which lesbian feminist separatists had based their lives were being seriously challenged, particularly from within their own community. The book traces the relationship between changing theories about gender and sexuality and women's own lives, and looks at how lesbian feminists lived through this period, when it seemed as though their community was fragmenting into an apolitical, postmodernist chaos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.

ISBN:

031216470X

OCLC:

37607011