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Sexual practice, textual theory : lesbian cultural criticism

Title
Sexual practice, textual theory : lesbian cultural criticism / edited by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Wolfe, Susan J., 1946-
  • Penelope, Julia, 1941-
Description
xii, 388 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • 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
  • Feminism and literature
  • Identity (Psychology) in literature
  • Lesbians in literature
  • Lesbians > Intellectual life
  • Sex role in literature
  • Women and literature
  • Lesbische Orientierung
  • Feminismus
  • Literaturkritik
  • écrivaine > homosexualité féminine > littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) > études diverses
  • Lesbische Liebe
  • Feminismus
  • Literaturkritik
  • United States
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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 --
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 1557861013
  • 9781557861016
  • 1557861005
  • 9781557861009
LCCN
92033731
OCLC
  • ocm26767740
  • 26767740
  • SCSB-1991631
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library