Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression / Edition 1

by Lynda Hart

Overview

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415100823
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/10/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lynda Hart is the author of Sam Shepard's Metaphorical Stages (Greenwood), Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre (Michigan). She is co-editor, with Peggy Phelan, of Acting Out: Feminist Performances (Michigan).

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: The Paradox of Prohibition 2. The Victorian Villainess and the Patriarchal Unconscious 3. Enter the Invert: Frank Wedekind’s Lulu Plays 4. Chloe Liked Olivia: Death, Desire, and Detection in the Female Buddy Film 5. Reconsidering Homophobia: Karen Finley’s Indiscretions 6. Race and Reproduction: Single White Female 7. Why Woman Did It: Basic Instinct and Its Vicissitudes 8. Surpassing the Word: Aileen Wuornos 9. Afterword: Zero Degree Deviancy—Lesbians Who Kill

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A key event in the study of women and sexuality. Linda Hart's discussion of the paradox of lesbianism in modern culture offers the most important contribution to lesbian studies to date. Its smooth negotiations among sexology, legal discourses, psychoanalytic theories of desire, and sexual politics in relation to class and race yield a brilliant view of lesbianism as what Hart calls the ghost in white heterosexual patriarchy."—Julia Epstein, Haverford College

Editorial Reviews

‘... writes with her usual authority. The work is clean thorough and incisine.' - Ms S J Dickenson, Hull Univ

From the Publisher

"It is a female-centered, deeply thoughtful and provocative work, a most original contribution to lesbian readings of popular culture that is sure to inspire further lesbian theory."

The Women's Review of Books