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Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (Between Men-Between Women – Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Ruth Vanita

Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (Between Men-Between Women – Lesbian and Gay Studies) | Ruth Vanita | What at first glance looks like a product of the inadvertent double booking of a convention hall turns out to be an initial exploration of the signifi

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle

The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall | Terry Castle | Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century no

Posted in Fiction History Literary Criticism Short Stories

Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest

Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 | Katherine V. Forrest | Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pul

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism

Lesbian Images by Jane Rule

Lesbian Images | Jane Rule | Jane Rule?s fourth book explores lesbianism as portrayed by authors from Gertrude Stein to Colette, from Vita Sackville-West to May Sarton and Willa C

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Scandal in the Ink: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Cassell Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Christopher Robinson

Scandal in the Ink: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Cassell Lesbian and Gay Studies) | Christopher Robinson | This highly original study of homosexuality as a theme in [french [literature this century traces the development of self-image among writers and look

Posted in Black Interest Literary Criticism

Feminism And Modernity In Anglophone African Women’s Writing by Dobrota Pucherova?

Feminism And Modernity In Anglophone African Women’s Writing | Dobrota Pucherova? | This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather t

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Novel Approaches To Lesbian History by Linda Garber

Novel Approaches To Lesbian History | Linda Garber | Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that de

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Interrogating Lesbian Modernism by Elizabeth English (Editor); Jana Funke (Editor); Sarah Parker (Editor)

Interrogating Lesbian Modernism | Elizabeth English (Editor); Jana Funke (Editor); Sarah Parker (Editor) | Makiko Minow coined the phrase ‘lesbian modernism’ in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and expan

Posted in Literary Criticism Poetry

Impertinent Voices by Liz Yorke

Impertinent Voices | Liz Yorke | How do women’s poetic voices disrupt cultural forms? What is the relationship between female desire and the structures of poetry? Is ?writing the body

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Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction by Amy Jeffrey

Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction | Amy Jeffrey | Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction offers an original and much-needed study of Irish Lesbian fiction. Evaluating a wide body of Irish lesbian fiction ran