{"product_id":"sex-and-sensibility-stories-of-a-lesbian-generation-paperback","title":"Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArlene Stein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein contributes an important chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a radical generation of feminists and its successors. Tracing the evolution of the lesbian movement from the bar scene to the growth of alternative families, Stein illustrates how a generation of women transformed the woman-centered ideals of feminism into a culture and a lifestyle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e relates the development of a \"queer\" sensibility in the 1990s to the foundation laid by the gay rights and feminist movements a generation earlier. Beginning with the stories of thirty women who came of age at the climax of the 70s women's movement--many of whom defined lesbianism as a form of resistance to dominant gender and sexual norms--Stein explores the complex issues of identity that these women confronted as they discovered who they were and defined themselves in relation to their communities and to society at large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e ends with interviews of ten younger women, members of the post-feminist generation who have made it a fashion to dismiss lesbian feminism as overly idealistic and reductive. Enmeshed in Stein's compelling and personal narrative are coming-out experiences, questions of separatism, work, desire, children, and family. Stein considers the multiple identities of women of color and the experiences of intermittent and \"ex\" lesbians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWas the lesbian feminist experiment a success? What has become of these ideas and the women who held them? In answering these questions, Stein illustrates the lasting and profound effect that the lesbian feminist movement had, and continues to have, on contemporary women's definitions of sexual identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn describing brilliantly the great complexity of sexual identity as an individual, a cultural and a political project, Arlene Stein definitively reshapes our understanding of sexuality. No one, after reading \u003ci\u003eSex and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e, can think that sexual orientation is an obvious matter.--Nancy J. Chodorow, author of \u003ci\u003eFemininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStein does an outstanding job of relating the development of a queer sensibility in the 1990s to the foundation created by gay rights and feminist movements a generation earlier.--Ellen Lewin, author of \u003ci\u003eLesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt last a work that escapes the stultifying quagmire of the feminist 'sex wars' between social constructionism and essentialism. Arlene Stein is the Jane Austen of lesbian identity politics.--Judith Stacey, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn describing brilliantly the great complexity of sexual identity as an individual, a cultural and a political project, Arlene Stein definitively reshapes our understanding of sexuality. No one, after reading \u003ci\u003eSex and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e, can think that sexual orientation is an obvious matter.--Nancy J. Chodorow, author of \u003ci\u003eFemininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stein does an outstanding job of relating the development of a queer sensibility in the 1990s to the foundation created by gay rights and feminist movements a generation earlier.\"--Ellen Lewin, author of \u003ci\u003eLesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At last a work that escapes the stultifying quagmire of the feminist 'sex wars' between social constructionism and essentialism. Arlene Stein is the Jane Austen of lesbian identity politics.\"--Judith Stacey, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArlene Stein\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology and a member of the graduate faculty of the Women's and Gender Studies program at Rutgers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 8.92 x 5.95 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (1997)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stonewall Book Award (1998)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52960366690611,"sku":"9780520206748","price":64.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Te1B3OL6aG9780520206748.webp?v=1768485187","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sex-and-sensibility-stories-of-a-lesbian-generation-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}