Sinuosities lesbian poetic Politics

Bloomington: Indiana University , 1996. Paperback. Fine. The surprising, resilient and transformative windings of lesbian writing and lesbian lives are the author's themes in this work. The ten essays, which span fifteen years, shape a poetic politics that transforms textual and everyday realities. A poetics of sinuous movement - the turning of women to women - informs these reflections on existentialism, lesbian and feminist theory, motherhood, education, hunger, the use and abuse of female bodies in patriachal economies, female friendship, anger, revolt, endurance, resistance and survival. For inspiration and meaning, Allen turns away from the fictional poses of much postmodernism, preferring an intimacy of the body as lived. To answer questions about how and whether to remember, to trust, and to befriend, Allen suggests a practice of ecological reading and an attentive listening to the shifting and unpredictable currents that cross womens' lives. Contains 191 pages, 23 x 15cm. Illustrated card covers showing very faint crease on back, otherwise in Fine condition. Internally, Fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new.