Category: Literary Criticism

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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 role of t

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Are Girls Necessary? by Julie Abraham

Julie Abraham | Are Girls Necessary? | What do we read as ‘lesbian,’ and why? Have we been looking for love in too few places? In this first full-length study of modern lesbian writing, Jul

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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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The Queer Uncanny by Paulina Palmer

Paulina Palmer | The Queer Uncanny | The Queer Uncanny investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in representing lesbia

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

Contemporary Lesbian Writing by Paulina Palmer

Paulina Palmer | Contemporary Lesbian Writing | Includes sections titled Theoretical Perspectives, Political Fictions, The Thriller and more. Now retired, Paulina Palmer was a senior lecturer in the

Posted in Film and Television Literary Criticism

Sapphism on Screen by Lucille Cairns

Lucille Cairns | Sapphism on Screen | Looking for something intellectual that will challenge your focus and intelligence? Sapphism on Screen is a study of lesbian desire in French and Fran

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Passionate Communities by Marilyn R. Schuster

Marilyn R. Schuster | Passionate Communities | In this new full-length study of Jane Rule’s life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule’s novels provide a way of ‘writing and reading lesbian’

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Lesbiana by Barbara Grier

Barbara Grier | Lesbiana | Includes all of Barbara Grier’s book reviews that appeared in the ‘Lesbiana’ section of the Ladder

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New Lesbian Criticism by Sally Munt

Sally Munt | New Lesbian Criticism | This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against reading as a ‘woman’ or as a ‘heterosexual’. Contributors b

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Sisters, Sexperts, Queers by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein | Sisters, Sexperts, Queers | This collection of essays illustrates both the vitality and the variety within the lesbian community, with topics such as the politics of butch-femme