The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual … Read more
The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary.
This collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary representations of bisexuality – both “real” and “imagined” – in literature, film and the visual arts. They ask questions concerning what it means to desire both men and women and explores the role of bisexuality in the construction of every person’s sexual identity.
A lesbian western set in St. George, Utah and Clovis, New Mexico. Mercedes Cade is serving eighteen months at the Pish Convent in Utah as a Mormon missionary, coming to Zion, the promised land, to reunite with the church she was raised in. She is partnered up with Violet Mace-Reese, a rebel politician from Montana … Read more
This book explores the rites of a sexual story-telling culture and examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions that have given rise to them.
Just of jail, and feeling free only when she’s,high, Beth wants only one thing: to see her,ex-lover, Tammy, the beautiful black artist who,offered her the only emotional, financial and,personal security Beth had ever known. Seasoned,with flavours of poetry, defiance and courage,Your Loving Arms ranges from the streets of East,Baltimore to the front porches of North … Read more
Weisser (English, Adelphi U.) writes that her anthology is “for anyone who is interested in understanding the conflicted but powerful female urge to experience the pleasure and endure the pain of romantic love.” In particular, she explores the collision of pervasive media images of romance with feminist values of independence and self-assertion. Several dozen historic … Read more
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland’s small size. … Read more
Close Calls presents twenty-one new stories that reflect the complexity and richness of lesbian life today, exploring a wide range of topics such as family, love and loss, children, violence, and sex. Susan Fox Rogers has brought together both established and new writers, including Ruthann Robson, Donna Allegra, Gwendolyn Bikis, Linda Smukler, Wickie Stamps, Anna … Read more
During the 1970s, thousands of American women met regularly in small groups to talk about the injustices they experienced in their private lives and how those personal injustices related to the broad-based political oppression of women. They called this cultural work “consciousness raising.” Women’s and feminist fiction of the 1970s was dominated by a new … Read more