Synopses & Reviews
"Allen's work is virtually unique among American writers. It illustrates a deep knowledge of the issues raised by the postmodernists, yet she does not succumb to the playing field, constructing instead her own philosophical direction and aesthetic." --Sarah Hoagland
Jeffner Allen shapes a poetic politics that transforms textual and everyday realities. The surprising, resilient, and transformative windings of lesbian writing and lesbian lives--a poetics of sinuous movement, the turning of women to women--informs these reflections.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-185) and index.
About the Author
JEFFNER ALLEN is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and author of reverberations across the shimmering CASCADAS.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
sinuosities
An Introduction to Patriarchal Existentialism,
A Proposal for a Way Out of Existential Patriarchy
Motherhood, THe Annihilation of Women
Women and Food, Feeding Ourselves
Lesbian Economics
The Economy of the Body in a Post-Nietzschean Era
Women Who Beget Women Must Thwart Major Sophisms
Poetic Politics, How the Amazons Took the Acropolis
a response to a letter from Peg Simons, December 1993
to trust, to befriend, her
Notes
Index