Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4552647
AutoresTeresa De Lauretis (autor de correspondencia)
Año1988
Volumen40
Número2
Páginas155
Fecha de publicación1988-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheatre Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3207654
OpenAlexW2324894124
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas97

There is a sense in which lesbian identity could be assumed, spoken, and articulated conceptually as political through feminism-and, current debates to wit, against feminism; in particular through and against the feminist critique of the Western discourse on love and sexuality, and therefore, to begin with, the rereading of psychoanalysis as a theory of sexuality and sexual difference. If the first feminist emphasis on sexual difference as gender (woman's difference from man) has rightly come under attack for obscuring the effects of other differences in women's psychosocial oppression, nevertheless that emphasis on sexual difference did open up a critical space-a conceptual, representational, and erotic space in which women could address themselves to women. And in the very act of assuming and speaking from the position of subject, a woman could concurrently recognize women as subjects and as objects of female desire

Representation · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies