Identity Politics: Lesbian Feminism and the Limits of Community

by Shane Phelan

Book Overview

"Lesbian feminism began and has fueled itself with the rejection of liberalism.... In this rejection, lesbian feminists were not alone. They were joined by the New Left, by many blacks in the civil rights movement, by male academic theorists.... What all these groups shared was an intense awareness of the ways in which liberalism fails to account for the social reality of the world, through a reliance upon law and legal structure to define membership,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877226512
• ISBN13: 9780877226512
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.