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This is a groundbreaking work of poetry, autobiography, lesbian studies, multicultural writing, feminist philosophy, and postmodernism. Jeffner Allen achieves a crossing of borders and complex worlds often heralded in feminist theory but rarely attempted These abundance writings are intimate chattings that celebrate collisions transitions unexpected that welcome fluidity a breathing that traverse deaths and lives How to love where there may be...

The lesbians who have contributed to this book are theorists and activists who write as members of diverse lesbian cultures. Each lesbian has her ways of knowing, her voices, approaches, methodologies, languages. Each lesbian reflects, directly and indirectly, her relations to her own and to other ethnicities, races, social classes, physical abilities, ages, and nationalities. Each lesbian has distinctive perspectives on lesbian existence, fri...

Allen's work is virtually unique among American writers. Itillustrates a deep knowledge of the issues raised by the postmodernists, yet shedoes not succumb to the playing field, constructing instead her own philosophicaldirection and aesthetic." -- Sarah Hoagland Jeffner Allenshapes a poetic politics that transforms textual and everyday realities. Thesurprising, resilient, and transformative windings of lesbian writing and lesbianlives -- a po...

This is groundbreaking work or poetry, autobiography, lesbian studies, multicultural writing, feminist philosophy, and post modernism. Jeffner Allen achieves a crossing of borders and complex worlds often heralded in feminist theory but rarely attempted.

Jeffner Allen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the author of Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations, and co-editor of The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy. She is active in the Society for Women in Philosophy and the National Women's Studies Association, and is on the Editorial Board of Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy.