Books by Shane Phelan

Traces how lesbian feminism came to be defined in uneasy relationships with the Women's Movement and gay rights groups. This book explores the tension between liberal ideals of individual rights and tolerance and communitarian ideals of solidarity.

Addresses questions of long-standing importance to minority group politics: the meaning and terms of inclusion, respect, and resistance. This book looks at citizenship not only as equal protection and equal rights to such institutions as marriage and military service, but also political visibility, as inclusion in the national imaginary.

Focusing on feminist theory, this book proposes a new approach, based on specificity, which recognizes the specifics of human experience, yet accounts for alliances and communities.