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Lesbian texts and contexts : radical revisions

Title
Lesbian texts and contexts : radical revisions / edited by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow.
Format
Book
Published
New York : New York University Press, c1990.
Description
xvii, 393 p. ; 24 cm.
Other contributors
Jay, Karla. Glasgow, Joanne, 1943-
Series
Feminist crosscurrents
Notes
Includes bibliographical references. Paperbound.
Contents
  • 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 Barne's satire on the ladies of the Almanack / Decadence and sapphic modernism / Cassandra Laity, H.D. and A.C. Swinburne
  • 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 / SDiane A. Bogus
  • A revolutionary signifier: the lesbian body / Namascar Shaktini
  • A differential equation of lesbian love / Alice Parker and Nicole Brossard / Myth and community in recent lesbian autobiographical fiction / Yvonne M. Klein
  • The journey back to female roots: a laguna pveblo model / Annette Van Dyke
  • Core of the apple: mother-daughter fusion/separation in three recent lesbian plays.
Kinsey subjects
Homosexuality in literature--Female. Women in literature.
ISBN
0814741754 (alk. paper) : 0814741770 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
808.7532 L375 1990
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute