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The lesbians who have contributed to this book are theorists and activists who write as members of diverse lesbian cultures. Each lesbian has her ways of knowing, her voices, approaches, methodologies, languages. Each lesbian reflects, directly and indirectly, her relations to her own and to other ethnicities, races, social classes, physical abilities, ages, and nationalities. Each lesbian has distinctive perspectives on lesbian existence, friendships and sexualities, separatism and coalition building, theories of knowledge and ethics, language and writing. Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures is a hybrid site for discussion of, work on, and delight in this sometimes uneasy, sometimes painful, sometimes surprising and wonderful, lesbian pluralism.
For this collection, some of the contributors have chosen to write in essay style, and some have chosen to write in fiction, autobiography, poetic prose and experimental forms. The contributors, all of whom live currently in the u.s.a. or quebec, are: Joyce Trebilcot, Vivienne Louise, Kitty Tsui, Ann Ferguson, Julia Penelope, Marthe Rosenfeld, Claudia Card, Anna Lee, María Lugones, Edwina Franchild, Caryatis Cardea, Baba Copper, Bette S. Tallen, Michèle Causse, Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Nett Hart, Marilyn Frye, Kim Hall, Jacquelyn N. Zita, Monique Wittig, Nicole Brossard, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Jeffner Allen.
INTRODUCTION
LIVING IN THE PLURAL
Joyce Trebilcot
Dyke Methods
Vivienne Louise
The Invisible Woman
LOCATIONS
Kitty Tsui
Breaking Silence, Making Waves and Loving Ourselves: The Politics of Coming Out and Coming Home
Ann Ferguson
Is There a Lesbian Culture?
Julia Penelope
The Lesbian Perspective
Marthe Rosenfeld
Jewish Lesbians in France: The Issue of Multiple Cultures
Claudia Card
Pluralist Lesbian Separatism
Anna Lee
For the Love of Separatism
DIS/CONNECTIONS
Maria Lugones
Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception
Edwina Franchild
"You do so well.": A Blind Lesbian Responds to Her Sighted Sisters
Caryatis Cardea
Lesbian Revolution and the 50 Minute Hour: A Working-Class Look at Therapy and the Movement
Baba Copper
The View from Over the Hill: Notes on Ageism between Lesbians
Bette S. Tallen
How Inclusive is Feminist Political Theory?: Questions for Lesbians
Michele Causse
The World as Will and Representation
Translated by Eleanor H. Kuykendall
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
Lesbian Ethics and Female Agency
WRITING DESIRE
Nett Hart
Lesbian Desire as Social Action
Marilyn Frye
Lesbian "Sex"
Kim Hall
Learning to Touch Honestly: A White Lesbian's Struggle with Racism
Jacquelyn N. Zita
Lesbian Body Journeys: Desire Making Difference
Monique Wittig
The Trojan Horse
Nicole Brossard
Coincidence
Certain Words
Translated by Marlene Wildeman
Gloria E. Anzaldua
She Ate Horses
Jeffner Allen
On the Seashore, A Writing of Abundance
CONTRIBUTORS