Erotic Knowledge
Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory
$245.62
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2026
Summary
Erotic Knowledge explores how US lesbian feminists raised questions about the political stakes of sexual freedom, how their distinctive political vocabularies informed coalition- and institution-building in ways that strain against contemporary queer and feminist assumptions, and how these alternative grammars were left behind in the decades since lesbian feminism’s remarkable surge in the 1970s.
Elena Gambino makes the case that the past of US lesbian feminism is rich in res…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781478033776 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1478033770 |
| Author: | Elena Gambino |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Imprint: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 572g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Ambitious, timely, and deeply original, Erotic Knowledge makes a compelling case for why 1980s US lesbian feminist thinking is worth revisiting.”—Kathi Weeks, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University“Erotic Knowledge is a rich and timely assessment of the barriers to liberatory thought and action that exist in the world as it has come to be, combined with illuminating suggestions about how we can think our way past the weary scripts of the 20th century. Gambino’s observations that ‘arrogant perception’ can be overcome by the pursuit of erotic knowledge and that erotic knowledge is an epistemology for world-making open up a new paradigm for political thought and action.”—Deva Woodly, author of Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
About The Author
Elena Gambino
Elena Gambino is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.
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