Personal Growth, Gay & Lesbian Studies

Lesbian Choices

Name: Lesbian Choices
Author: Claudia Card
ISBN: 9780231080095

by Claudia Card

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Overview

In this compellingly honest collection of her writings, renowned feminist philosopher Claudia Card courageously explores the complex ethical and political questions lesbians face, considering these issues in regard to their identities and relationships both within and outside of lesbian communities. Lesbian Choices is written with a grace and clarity that readers inside and outside academia will appreciate. Claudia Card's lucid presentation of complicated philosophical and ethical concepts offers a better understanding of the explosive issue of gender construction in our society. Lesbian Choices is recommended reading for anyone interested in lesbianism, feminism, ethics, and philosophy.

Renowned feminist philosopher Claudia Card courageously explores the complex ethical and political questions lesbians face regarding their identities and their relationship both within and outside the lesbian communities.

Synopsis

Renowned feminist philosopher Card courageously explores the complex ethical and political questions lesbians face regarding their identities and their relationships both within and outside of lesbian communities.

Elizabeth Spelman

While many books about lesbians discuss the moral and political problems lesbians seem to present for the larger society, Claudia Card, with unfailing grace, also examines a host of other problems for lesbians (and to a certain extent gay men) in their reflections on themselves and in their relations to each other.

About the Author, Claudia Card

Claudia Card is Professor of Philosophy with affiliations in Women's Studies and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she has taught since 1966. She is editor of Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy (1994) and Lesbian Ethics (1991).

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Choice

Relying both on her academic training as a philosopher and her position in the academy (and the community) as an out lesbian, Card tackles topics ranging from the ban on gays and lesbians in the military to questions of battering, female on female incest, and sadomasochism in the lesbian community.... This book should be in any collection supporting women's studies and/or lesbian and gay studies.

Choice

Relying both on her academic training as a philosopher and her position in the academy (and the community as an out lesbian, Card tackles topics ranging from the ban on gays and lesbians in the military to questions of battering, female on female incest, and sadomasochism in the lesbian community. . . . This book should be in any collection supporting women´s studies and/or lesbian and gay studies.

Mary Daly

A thoughtful and very intelligent analysis....This work of lesbian philosophy and ethics will be important to teachers and students of Lesbian and gay studies and to all who think seriously about lesbian feminism as a crucial movement in our society.

Julia Penelope

Card explores what being a lesbian means, drawing out lesbian meanings from the choices and values that define lesbian lives....Having found her own voice, an integration of her years of thought, teaching, activism and visibility, she speaks with authenticity about lesbian positions in the world and the ways we construe ourselves.Lesbian Choices is a book that requires our most engaged attention.

Elizabeth Spelman

Toni A.H. McNaron

Building on the work of lesbian colleagues, Claudia Card pushes ethics and choice beyond easy assumptions and romanticized pronouncements. By grappling with such sensitive subjects as incest, battering, and the complex ground of coming out/being outed, Card invites readers to confront their own values about how lesbians of various kinds go about working out our most dangerous as well as pedestrian choices. . . . Accessible and scholarly, Card's work demonstrates her own theories of lesbians sharing power as we build more inclusive communities.