A Desire for Women by Suzanne Juhasz

Suzanne Juhasz explores women's desire for women in twentieth-century British and American fiction, memoir and poetry by writers including Virginia Woolf, Vivian Gornick, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Hacker and Audre Lorde. Weaving psychoanalytic, feminist, queer and literary theory with memoir, she shows how writing enacts relationships between daughters and mothers, between lesbian lovers, and between writers and readers, with the bond between mother and infant as the model for all later loves.