(Un)Familiar Femininities

This book argues that the queer female subject is an (un)familiar, hidden in plain sight. How does one theorize subjects who are not 'gay' or 'lesbian' in the conventional sense of occupying stable, visible identities? (Un)Familiar Femininities, through its exciting readings of various Indian texts, looks at how the figure of the lesbian as (un)familiar, simultaneously strange and mundane, allows the imagining of scripts for femininity that do not all march towards unquestioning acceptance of heterosexuality as normative, natural, final.