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Sexual practice/textual theory : lesbian cultural criticism
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- Creator
- edited by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1993
- Physical Details
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- xii, 388 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781557861016, 1557861013, 9781557861009, 1557861005
- OCLC
- ocm26767740
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-377) and index.
- 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
- (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
Subjects
- Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Lesbians -- United States -- Intellectual life.
- Feminism and literature -- United States.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Women and literature -- United States.
- Lesbians in literature.
- Sex role in literature.