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876519
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Huffer, Lynne,1960-
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| Title & Author
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Are the lips a grave? : : a queer feminist on the ethics of sex /\ Lynne Huffer.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, [2013]
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1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0231535775
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0231164165
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0231164173
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9780231164160
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9780231164177
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Claiming a Queer Feminism; 1. Are the Lips a Grave?; 2. There Is No Gomorrah: Narrative Ethics in Feminist and Queer Theory; 3. Foucalt's Fist; 4. Queer Victory, Feminist Defeat? Sodomy and Rape in Lawrence v. Texas; 5. One-Handed Reading; 6. Queer Lesbian Silence: Colette Reads Proust; 7. What If Hagar and Sarah Were Lovers?; 8. After Sex; Afterword: Queer Lives in the Balance; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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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 ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference. Through this theoretical l.
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Ethics.
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Feminist theory.
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Queer theory.
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Sex.
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Ethics.
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Feminist theory.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Queer theory.
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Sex.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gay Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.7601
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| LC Classification
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HQ1190.H84 2013
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