| Titre : | Lesbian philosophy : exploration | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Jeffner Allen, Auteur | | Editeur : | Palo Alto (CA) : Insitut of lesbian studies | | Année de publication : | 1986 | | Importance : | 119 p. | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-934903-86-8 | | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | | Catégories : | Lesbianisme
| | Tags : | lesbianism feminism philosophy | | Résumé : | This slim volume combines first-person storytelling with philosophy and feminist theory in a poignant, powerful way.The necessity of freedom, the desire to be safe in one's body and known through that gentle medium, is a central theme throughout the book. There is an elegance to her view, not born of male logic but of fluid, feminine experience.
Allen builds her arguments in a clear and thoughtful way. She defines terms as she goes, locating the familiar in new contexts and highlighting useful ideas. Sharing her experiences of loss and terrorization, including being raped, she spells out the need for responses that are unrecoverable by patriarchy, including hating men. Allen possibilizes that action as a way of affirming a woman's body.
Similarly, Allen's view of Lesbian violence as the only credible response to patriarchy flows (like the blood in her veins) from her daily experience of her own flesh. Using this violence, Lesbians can wage a war that protects their bodies/boundaries and prioritizes their particular loves. Allen stresses that this violence is not the mirror opposite of patriarchy, however, for that would still maintain the model of domination.
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Lesbian philosophy : exploration [texte imprimé] / Jeffner Allen, Auteur . - Palo Alto (CA) : Insitut of lesbian studies, 1986 . - 119 p. ISBN : 978-0-934903-86-8 Langues : Anglais ( eng) | Catégories : | Lesbianisme
| | Tags : | lesbianism feminism philosophy | | Résumé : | This slim volume combines first-person storytelling with philosophy and feminist theory in a poignant, powerful way.The necessity of freedom, the desire to be safe in one's body and known through that gentle medium, is a central theme throughout the book. There is an elegance to her view, not born of male logic but of fluid, feminine experience.
Allen builds her arguments in a clear and thoughtful way. She defines terms as she goes, locating the familiar in new contexts and highlighting useful ideas. Sharing her experiences of loss and terrorization, including being raped, she spells out the need for responses that are unrecoverable by patriarchy, including hating men. Allen possibilizes that action as a way of affirming a woman's body.
Similarly, Allen's view of Lesbian violence as the only credible response to patriarchy flows (like the blood in her veins) from her daily experience of her own flesh. Using this violence, Lesbians can wage a war that protects their bodies/boundaries and prioritizes their particular loves. Allen stresses that this violence is not the mirror opposite of patriarchy, however, for that would still maintain the model of domination.
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Lesbian philosophy : exploration / Jeffner Allen
