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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

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The Lesbian Lyre by Jeffrey M. Duban

Jeffrey M. Duban | The Lesbian Lyre | Hailed by Plato as the ‘Tenth Muse’ of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Gr

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The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz

Phyllis M. Betz | The Lesbian Fantastic | ‘This work examines how lesbian authors have used the structures and conventions of science fiction to embody characters, relationships and other them

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The Queer Sixties by Patricia Juliana Smith

Patricia Juliana Smith | The Queer Sixties | As the 1960s recede further into our collective memory, curiosity and nostalgia for this groovy, flower-powered decade persists. Many books have chart

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Highest Apple by Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn | Highest Apple | examination of the history of lesbian poetry

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The Cambridge History Of Gay And Lesbian Literature by E. L. McCallum; Mikko Tuhkanen

E. L. McCallum; Mikko Tuhkanen | The Cambridge History Of Gay And Lesbian Literature | ‘The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on