Lesbian Studies after The Lesbian Postmodern: toward a new genealogy.
While Lesbian Studies is established as a commodity in the academic marketplace, its disciplinary contours are rather more obscure-and even more problematically, its disciplinary genealogy remains somewhat crude. The dominant genealogy of Lesbian Studies might best be characterized as a 'collision model,' a battle between politics and theory, even though much existing scholarship draws on both Lesbian-Feminist Theory and Queer Theory.1 This article proposes that the tools and methods of a sub-field called 'Lesbian Cultural History' might be useful in generating other historical accounts of the origins and evolution of Lesbian Studies. Such a project is vital because the writing of our disciplinary History clarifies how we envision a disciplinary future.
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Laura
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School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. laura.doan@man.ac.uk
D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D005789:Genealogy and Heraldry; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012107:Research Design; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights; D014931:Women, Working; D017132:Workplace