Lesbian Fetishism? Cover Image

Лезбејски фетишизам?
Lesbian Fetishism?

Author(s): Elizabeth Grosz
Contributor(s): Žarko Trajanoski (Translator)
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: lesbianism; fetishism;

Summary/Abstract: In psychoanalytic discourse, fetishism is a uniquely male perversion.1 In the psychoanalytic literature it has been generally agreed, (with very few exceptions), that fetishism is a male perversion, and its existence in women is assumed to be impossible. While in one sense I do not want to disagree with this claim— in psychoanalytic terms, it makes no sense for women to be fetishists, and it is unimaginable that women would get gratification from the use of inanimate objects or mere partial objects alone?— in another, more strategic and political sense, it seems plausible to suggest, as Naomi Schor does in her analysis of George Sand (1985) that there can be a form of female fetishism, and to claim, further, that lesbianism provides its most manifest and tangible expression.

  • Issue Year: 1/2001
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 113-134
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English, Macedonian