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All original to this volume, these evocative essays by such scholars as Robyn Wiegman, Elizabeth Grosz, and Judith Roof examine a realm as yet untouched in literary and cultural criticism and gender theory, a specifically lesbian postmodern.
The essays trace, on the one hand, how some lesbian cultural theory and production foreground a politics of difference and marginality and thereby critique patriarchal and heterosexual hegemony. On the other hand, some essays note how a postmodern aesthetic, with its valorization of difference, sexual plurality, and gender blurring, assists lesbian cultural production.
Among the topics discussed are the shifting definitions of lesbian and postmodern; the potential and danger of this new conceptual territory in theory, literary and visual representation, and popular culture; the lesbian in Hollywood film; actors Jodie Foster and Sandra Bernhard; and works by Jeanette Winterson, Michelle Cliff, and Gloria Anzaldua.
Throughout, contributors address the interrelated questions and issues of class, race, ethnicity, postcolonialism, and commodification.
1. Introduction: Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern, by Robyn Wiegman
Part One. Theorizing the Lesbian Postmodern
2. Racing the Lesbian, Dodging White Critics, by Sagri Dhairyam
3. Lesbians and Lyotard: Legitimation and the Politics of the Name, by Judith Roof
4. Refiguring Lesbian Desire, by Elizabeth Grosz
5. The Postmodern Lesbian Position: On Our Backs, by Colleen Lamos
6. Irigaray's Female Symbolic in the Making of Chicana Lesbian Sitios y Lenguas (Sites and Discourses), by Emma Perez
7. Lesbian Bodies in the Age of (Post) Mechanical Reproduction, by Cathy Griggers
Part Two. Textual and Performative Strategies
8. Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Postmodern, by Laura Doan
9. Inverts and Hybrids: Lesbian Rewritings of Sexual and Racial Identities, by Judith Raiskin
10. Almost Blue: Policing Lesbian Desire in Internal Affairs, by Dana A. Heller
11. We Girls Can Do Anything, Right Barbie? Lesbian Consumption in Postmodern Circulation, by Erica Rand
12. F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity, by Judith Halberstam
13. The Butch Femme Fatale, by Terry Brown
14. Sandra Bernhard: Lesbian Postmodern or Modern Postlesbian?, by Jean Walton