Hoogland Renée C
Radboud University, Cultural Sexual Studies/American Studies, PO Box 9104, Nijmegen, NL 6500, The Netherlands.
J Lesbian Stud. 2007;11(1-2):137-43. doi: 10.1300/J155v11n01_09.
This piece considers personal investments endemic in academic writing, more specifically, in Lesbian Studies. Taking Elizabeth Bowen's phrase, "transposed autobiography," as a starting-point, the author briefly discusses the development of lesbian/straight feminist debates, and continues to explore the relative absence of lesbianism in current feminist and queer theorizing. Three 'moments' serve to explain the casting aside of lesbian desire: the subsidence of lesbian/straight feminist debates, the prevalence of 'race'/ethnicity in critical theorizing and the emergence of post-theoretical trends of thought.
