My Dangerous Desires - A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home

Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires presents over twenty years of Hollibaugh’s writing, an introduction written especially for this book, and five new essays including “A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home,” “My Dangerous Desires,” and “Sexuality, Labor, and the New Trade Unionism.”
In looking at themes such as the relationship between activism and desire or how sexuality can be intimately tied to one’s class identity, Hollibaugh fiercely and fearlessly analyzes her own political development as a response to her unique personal history. She explores the concept of labeling and the associated issues of categories such as butch or femme, transgender, bisexual, top or bottom, drag queen, b-girl, or drag king. The volume includes conversations with other writers, such as Deirdre English, Gayle Rubin, Jewelle Gomez, and CherrÍe Moraga. From the groundbreaking article “What We’re Rollin’ Around in Bed With” to the radical “Sex Work Notes: Some Tensions of a Former Whore and a Practicing Feminist,” Hollibaugh charges ahead to describe her reality, never flinching from the truth. Dorothy Allison’s moving foreword pays tribute to a life lived in struggle by a working-class lesbian who, like herself, refuses to suppress her dangerous desires.
Having informed many of the debates that have become central to gay and lesbian activism, Hollibaugh’s work challenges her readers to speak, write, and record their desires-especially, perhaps, the most dangerous of them-“in order for us all to survive.”

Table des matières

Introduction (1999)
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A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (1999)
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Sexuality and the State: The Defeat of the Briggs Initiative and Beyond
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An Interview with Amber Hollibaugh
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Socialist Review, May/June 1979
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What We’re Rollin’ Around in Bed With: Sexual Silences in Feminism—a conversation toward ending them
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Amber Hollibaugh and Cherrie Moraga Heresies Magazine, 1979/1980

Desire for the Future: Radical Hope in Passion and Danger
from Pleasure and Danger, edited by Carole Vance (Routledge Press, 1993)>
The Right to Rebel
Gay Left Journal #9 (1979)>
Talking Sex: A Conversation on Sexuality and Feminism
With Deirdre English, Amber Hollibaugh, and Gayle Rubin
Socialist Review, 1978

Opposite Sex: Lesbians and Gay Men Talk About Each Others’ Sexuality
An Interview with Amber Hollibaugh, Jewelle Gomez, and Gayle Rubin
(Sara Miles and Eric Rofes, ed., 1998)>
Femme Fables Columns
New York Native, 1983/1984
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The Gap She Fostered
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A Barren Expanse of Loneliness
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Intimate Signs of War

Sympathy of the Blood
The Village Voice, June 1984

Strategies for Freedom
The Nation, May 1993>
Sex Work Notes: Some Tensions of a Former Whore and a Practicing Feminist (1999)
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Lesbianism is not a Condom
LAP Notes, 1992

Transmission, Transmission, Where’s the Transmission?
Sojourner Newspaper, June 1994

Lesbian Denial and Lesbian Leadership in the AIDS Epidemic: Bravery and Fear in the Construction of a Lesbian Geography of Risk
from Feminist Empowerment in the Age of AIDS, Nancy Stoller and Beth Schneider, editors (Temple University Press, 1996)>
Sexuality, Labor, and the New Trade Unionism: A Conversation with Amber Hollibaugh and Nikhil Pal Singh
Out at Work (1999

A Grande Dame: The Femme Interview
An Interview with Amber Hollibaugh
Fem(me) Anthology (1999)>
My Dangerous Desires: Falling in Love with Stone Butches, Passing Women, and Girls (Who are Guys) Who Catch My Eye (1999)

A propos de l'auteur

Amber Hollibaugh has been a political activist for over thirty years. The documentary film she coproduced and directed, The Heart of the Matter, won the Freedom of Expression award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. Among her health education work, she founded and directed the Lesbian AIDS Project at Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York, for which she won the Dr. Susan M. Love Award for Achievement in Women’s Health. She has written for, among others, The Nation, Socialist Review, NY Native, and the Village Voice. My Dangerous Desires is her first book.

Résumé

Explores the concept of labelling and the associated issues of categories such as butch or femme, transgender, bisexual, top or bottom, drag queen, b-girl, or drag king. This volume includes conversations with other writers, such as Deirdre English, Gayle Rubin, Jewelle Gomez, and Cherrie Moraga.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Amber L. Hollibaugh, Hollibaugh, Amber Hollibaugh, Amber L Hollibaugh, Amber L. Hollibaugh
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 10.11.2000
• EAN: 9780822326199
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2619-9
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Poids: 431 g
• Thèmes: Series Q; Series Q
• Catégorie: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques