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Decisions of Identity: Feminist Subjects and Grammars of Sexuality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Wendy Lee-Lampshire
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Abstract

While Sarah Hoagland's conception of a lesbian ethic offers a promising route toward articulating an ethics of resistance, her notion of self in community does not provide a conception of “subject” capable of both embracing political action as fundamental to personal life and explicitly recognizing cultural, ethnic, and sexual multiplicity as central to ethical decision-making. Such a notion can be found, however, in the remarks of later Wittgenstein concerning the “language games” of describing.

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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , Fall 1995 , pp. 32 - 45
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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