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.
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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 l.
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Are the Lips a Grave? : A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex.
Ethics.
Feminist theory.
Queer theory.
Sex.
Ethics.
Feminist theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.