Cross-Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance [Paperback]

. . . innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possibility that liberation can be mutual rather than mutually exclusive. Lambda Book Report

Challenging and interesting. Just Out

A collection of fifteen interdisciplinary essays examining the history, current condition, and evolving shape of lesbian alliances with U.S. feminists. Contributors explore the social and aesthetic significance of the terms lesbian and feminist with the interest of reforming and strengthening them.

Examines risks and limits of alliances between lesbian studies and feminist studies.

Dana Heller, Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University, is the author of Family Plots: The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture and The Feminization of Quest-Romance: Radical Departures.

Acknowledgments
Purposes: An Introduction, by Dana Heller
I. Crossings
Obstructive Behavior: Dykes in the Mainstream of Feminist Theory, by Carolyn M. Dever
Fem/Les Scramble, by Teresa de Lauretis
Skin deep: Lesbian Interventions in Language, by Ruth Salvaggio
The White Negress and the Heavy Duty Dyke, by Tania Modleski
II. Collisions
Sexuality Versus Gender: A Kind of Mistake? by Colleen Lamos
When Lambs and Aliens Meet: Girl-faggots and Boy-dykes Go to the Movies, by Michele
Aina Barale
When Experience and Representation Collide: Lesbians, Feminists, and the AIDS Crisis,
by Katie Hogan
Feminism Without Women : A Lesbian Reassurance, by Annamarie Jagose
Supermodels of Lesbian Chic: Camille Paglia Revamps Lesbian/Feminism (while Susie
Bright Retools), , by Jane Caputi and Karman Kregloe