Category: Literary Criticism

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Looking Like What You Are by Lisa Walker

Lisa Walker | Looking Like What You Are | Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one’s status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how d

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Romancing the Margins? by Gabriele Griffin

Gabriele Griffin | Romancing the Margins? | Explore modern lesbian writing and the critical response it engenders!

Central to current debates in lesbian and gender studies have been the

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Lesbian And Bisexual Fiction Writers by Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom | Lesbian And Bisexual Fiction Writers | — Covers 200 of the most important women writers of English– Groups authors culturally and by genre, from 18th-century diarists to new writers of ex

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Gertrude Stein And Richard Wright: The Poetics And Politics Of Modernism by M. Lynn Weiss

M. Lynn Weiss | Gertrude Stein And Richard Wright: The Poetics And Politics Of Modernism | After the Second World War, Gertrude Stein asked a friend’s support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris.

“I’ve got to help h

Posted in Film and Television Literary Criticism Literary History

Laws Of Desire by Paul Julian Smith

Paul Julian Smith | Laws Of Desire | Homosexuality has been treated only in a fragmentary way in Hispanic studies, and this is the first full-length study of the subject in contemporary S

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Odd Women? by Emma Liggins

Emma Liggins | Odd Women? | This genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women fiction and auto biography from the 1850s

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Sex Variant Women in Literature by Jeannette H. Foster

Jeannette H. Foster | Sex Variant Women in Literature | This is a fascinating account of famous Lesbians throughout the years, analyzing the books they wrote, their efforts to achieve publication and their

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The Straight Mind by Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig | The Straight Mind | These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist w

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My Mama’s Dead Squirrel by Mab Segrest

Mab Segrest | My Mama’s Dead Squirrel | This collection brings together essays published over the past eight years by lesbian-feminist organizer and editor Segrest, who is the granddaughter

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Lesbian Detective Fiction by Phyllis M. Betz

Phyllis M. Betz | Lesbian Detective Fiction | This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of the genre. As this bo