The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire - Paperback

by Teresa de Lauretis (Author)

In an eccentric reading of Freud through Laplanche and the Lacanian and feminist revisions, Teresa de Lauretis delineates a model of "perverse" desire and a theory of lesbian sexuality as represented in Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness, Cherrie Moraga's play Giving Up the Ghost and Sheila McLaughlin'es film She Must Be Seeing Things, among others.

Author Biography

Teresa de Lauretis is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema and Technologies of Gender and the editor of Feminist Studies/Critical Studies and of Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities (a special issue of the journal differences).