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Novelists With Gay and Lesbian Themes by Carl Rollyson

Carl Rollyson | Novelists With Gay and Lesbian Themes | Overview

Novelists With Gay & Lesbian Themes is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Four

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Lesbiana by Gene Damon; Barbara Grier

Gene Damon; Barbara Grier | Lesbiana | book reviews from the Ladder, 1966-1972

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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative And Critical Perspectives By Feminists Of Color by Gloria Anzaldua

Gloria Anzaldua | Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative And Critical Perspectives By Feminists Of Color | A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multip

Posted in Children Literary Criticism Literary History YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Over The Rainbow by Kenneth B. Kidd; Michelle Ann Abate

Kenneth B. Kidd; Michelle Ann Abate | Over The Rainbow | ‘Over the Rainbow is lively, engaging, and thoughtful. More to the point, the field of children’s literature needs such a collection.’ –Katherine Cap

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Tomboys by Michelle Ann Abate

Michelle Ann Abate | Tomboys | Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the “girl power” movement of the 1990’s, Tomboys is the

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Impossible Women by Valerie Rohy

Valerie Rohy | Impossible Women | Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americ

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A Lure Of Knowledge by Judith Roof

Judith Roof | A Lure Of Knowledge | Lesbianism in literature has been dealt with rather indirectly in the past. Editors have led readers to the ‘artistry’ of a work containing lesbianism

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Heavenly Love? by Gabriele Griffin

Gabriele Griffin | Heavenly Love? | ‘Heavenly Love?’ questions assumptions about lesbian identity in the 20th century by looking in detail at writers such as Radclyffe Hall, Adrienne Ric

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Lesbianism In Swedish Literature by Jenny Bjo?rklund

Jenny Bjo?rklund | Lesbianism In Swedish Literature | Here, Jenny Björklund reveals that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward

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Lesbian and Bisexual Fiction Writers by Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom | Lesbian and Bisexual Fiction Writers | Critical analyses and bibliographies for Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Allison, Djuna Barnes, Rita Mae Brown, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, Patricia Highsmi