| Description |
xii, 388 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-377) and index. |
| Contents |
What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist criticism -- Perverse reading : the lesbian appropriation of literature / Bonnie Zimmerman -- Two feminist criticisms : a necessary conflict? / Anne Charles -- Toward a definition of the lesbian literary imagination / Marilyn R Farwell -- Gender as performance : Shakespearean ambiguity and the lesbian reader / Paula Bennett -- Waitng for stonewall / Sarah Dreher -- Subverting closure : compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory endings in middle-class British women's novels / Diana L Swanson -- Reading Deephaven as a lesbian text / Judith Fetterley -- Sexual narrative in the fiction of Djuna Barnes / Carolyn J. Allen -- Modernity and lesbian identity in the later works of Nicole Brossard / Marthe Rosenfeld --From isolation to diversity ; self and communities in twentieth-century lesbian novels / Linnea A. Stenson -- Zami and the politics of plural identity / Erin G. Carlston. |
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(cont.) Separatism and feminist utopian fiction / Diane Griffin Crowder -- Liberating laughter : comedic form in some lesbian novels / Louise Kawada -- Lesbian intertextuality / Elaine Marks -- Mirrors and likeness : a lesbian aesthetic in the making / Toni A. H. McNaron -- Poetic politics : How the Amazons took the Acropolis / Jeffner Allen -- Under the covers : a synesthesia of desire (lesbian translations) / Alice Parker. |
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Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Lesbians -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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Feminism and literature -- United States.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Lesbians in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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English literature By Women |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Wolfe, Susan J., 1946-
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Penelope, Julia, 1941-
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| ISBN |
1557861013 (alk. paper : pbk.) |
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1557861005 |
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