Elena Gambino is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.

• Introduction. US Lesbian Feminism Beyond and Beside the Waves 11. Erotic Knowledge: Lesbian Feminism and the Genealogies of Sexuality 292. The Will to Remember: Poetry as Political History in Lesbian Feminist Theory 553. On Publishing and Publicity: Intersectional Accountability in Lesbian Feminist Publishing 844. Loving in Doorways: World-Making and the Lesbian Erotic 1055. Against Arrogant Perception: Lesbianizing Political Theory 128Epilogue. Lesbian Feminism Across Time and Space 151Acknowledgments 167Notes 173Bibliography 187Index 197

“Ambitious, timely, and deeply original, Erotic Knowledge makes a compelling case for why 1980s US lesbian feminist thinking is worth revisiting.”—Kathi Weeks, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University“Erotic Knowledge is a rich and timely assessment of the barriers to liberatory thought and action that exist in the world as it has come to be, combined with illuminating suggestions about how we can think our way past the weary scripts of the 20th century. Gambino’s observations that ‘arrogant perception’ can be overcome by the pursuit of erotic knowledge and that erotic knowledge is an epistemology for world-making open up a new paradigm for political thought and action.”—Deva Woodly, author of Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements