Are the lips a grave? : a queer feminist on the ethics of sex / Lynne Huffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huffer, Lynne, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Queer theory.

Sex.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault's ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference.Through this theoretical lens, Huffer e

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Claiming a Queer Feminism ; 1. Are the Lips a Grave? ; 2. There Is No Gomorrah: Narrative Ethics in Feminist and Queer Theory ; 3. Foucalt''s Fist ; 4. Queer Victory, Feminist Defeat? Sodomy and Rape in Lawrence v. Texas ; 5. One-Handed Reading ; 6. Queer Lesbian Silence: Colette Reads Proust ; 7. What If Hagar and Sarah Were Lovers? ; 8. After Sex ; Afterword: Queer Lives in the Balance; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 22, 2013).

ISBN:

9780231535779

0231535775

OCLC:

858761688