| Description |
xvii, 393 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Feminist crosscurrents
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Feminist crosscurrents.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393). |
| Contents |
Introduction / Joanne Glasgow & Karla Jay -- An imaginative collectivity of writers and readers / Valerie Miner -- Falling between the cracks / Mary Meigs -- Cruising the libraries / Lee Lynch -- Insider/outsider coming of age / Maureen Brady -- The elusive 'seamless whole' : a biographer treats (or fails to treat) lesbianism / Noel Riley Fitch -- Theorizing lesbian : writing-a love letter / Elizabeth Meese -- Heterosexual plots and lesbian subtexts : toward a theory of lesbian narrative space / Marilyn R. Farwell -- The pea that duty locks : lesbian and feminist-heterosexual readings of Emily Dickinson's poetry / Paula Bennett -- 'The dark eye beaming' : female friendship in George Eliot's fictions / Bonnie Zimmerman -- My Antonia, Jim Burden, and the dilemma of the lesbian writer / Judith Fetterley -- Sapphistory : the woolf and the well / Jane Marcus -- Expatriate Sapphic modernism : entering literary history / Shari Benstock -- The outsider among the expatriates : Djuna Barnes's satire on The ladies of the almanack / Karla Jay -- H.D. & A.C. Swinburne : decadence and sapphic modernism / Cassandra Laity -- What's a nice lesbian like you doing in the church of Torquemada? Radclyffe Hall and other Catholic converts / Joanne Glasgow -- Making the world safe for the missionary position : images of the lesbian in post-World War II America / Kate Adams -- The 'Queen B' figure in black literature / Diane A. Bogus -- A revolutionary signifier : the lesbian body / Namascar Shaktini -- Nicole Brossard : a differential equation of lesbian love / Alice Parker -- Myth and community on recent lesbian autobiographical fiction / Yvonne M. Klein -- The journey back to female roots : a Laguna Pueblo model / Annette Van Dyke -- Core of the apple : mother-daughter fusion/separation in three recent lesbian plays / Rosemary Curb -- Afterword : Lesbian studies in the 1990s / Catharine R. Stimpson. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. Judith L. Johnston |
| Subject |
Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism.
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Lesbians' writings, American. |
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Lesbians -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life.
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Lesbians. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Homosexuality and literature. |
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Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Feminism and literature. |
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Lesbians' writings, English -- History and criticism.
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Lesbians' writings, English. |
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature. |
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Lesbianism in literature.
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Lesbianism in literature. |
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Lesbians in literature.
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Lesbians in literature. |
| Indexed Term |
English literature Special subjects Lesbianism |
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Lesbians. |
| Added Author |
Jay, Karla.
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Glasgow, Joanne, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0814741754 alkaline paper |
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9780814741757 alkaline paper |
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0814741770 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780814741771 paperback alkaline paper |
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