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Audre Lorde's (Nonessentialist) Lesbian Eros

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Ruth Ginzberg
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Abstract

Audre horde reopened the question of the position of the erotic with respect to both knowledge and power in her 1983 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.” This is not a new question in the philosophical literature; it is a very old one. What is different about Audre Lorde's examination of Eros is that she starts with a decidedly lesbian conception of Eros, in marked contrast to other Western philosophers’ work.

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CONSTRUCTING “LESBIAN”
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Lesbian Philosophy , Fall 1992 , pp. 73 - 90
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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