Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex

by Lynne Huffer

Book Overview

Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231164165
• ISBN13: 9780231164160
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher