2015
DOI: 10.5007/2175-8026.2015v68n2p127
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Celebrating Queer Lesbian Desires with Dorothy Allison: From moral monstrosity to the beautiful materiality of the body

Abstract: Using social and queer theory on domination, sexuality and gender, this contribution explores how the queer American author Dorothy Allison celebrates the vilii ed transgressive lesbian body. As, in the 1970s, the mainstream American feminist movement crystallized around the dei nition of an acceptable sexuality in the name of femininity, female sexual practices were standardized according to strict identity frames, carnal desire was denied, and transgressive lesbians who play with gender roles were dei ned as… Show more

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