Contribution to Book
The Perils and Pleasures of Being an Out Lesbian Academic; or, Speech from the Scaffold
Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom
Publication Date
8-15-1997
Document Type
Contribution to a Book
Editor
Beth Mintz, Esther D. Rothblum
DOI
10.4324/9780203948903
Abstract
To be a philosophic lesbian is to love Sophia, in all her dynamic life-filled contradictions. The lesbian lover of Sophia is immediately mediated, never "natural" yet always intimately in physical nature. Being a lesbian is never stable, solid, or grounded; its status quo is status-less: a free-floating agent of disruptive change and momentous insight.
Citation Information
Jennifer Rycenga. "The Perils and Pleasures of Being an Out Lesbian Academic; or, Speech from the Scaffold" Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom (1997) p. 171 - 179 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jennifer-rycenga/31/