Sexual practice/textual theory : lesbian cultural criticism / edited by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Wolfe, Susan J., 1946-, Penelope, Julia, 1941-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1993.
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.

Table of 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.
(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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