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(Sem)Erotics – Theorizing Lesbian: Writing by Elizabeth Meese

Elizabeth Meese | (Sem)Erotics – Theorizing Lesbian: Writing | What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? What motivates these writers and characterizes their work? What is the na

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Pronoun Envy by Anna Livia

Anna Livia | Pronoun Envy | Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic ‘he,’ has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the la

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Literary Criticism

With Her Machete In Her Hand by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

Catriona Rueda Esquibel | With Her Machete In Her Hand | I am wildly ecstatic about this project and thoroughly grateful for Esquibel’s interventions in the cause of Chicana lesbian authors …now extending

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After Sex? by Janet Halley; Andrew Parker

Janet Halley; Andrew Parker | After Sex? | Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social s

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Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall by Terry Castle

Terry Castle | Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall | At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine two more different literary personalities than Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall. Coward’s writing is play

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With Her Machete in Her Hand by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

Catriona Rueda Esquibel | With Her Machete in Her Hand | With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria An

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Un/Popular Culture by Kathleen Martindale

Kathleen Martindale | Un/Popular Culture | Theorizing lesbian, Kathleen Martindale writes, is like embarking on terra incognita. In this book, Martindale offers her lucidly written analysis as

Posted in Lesbian Studies Literary Criticism

Sappho and the Virgin Mary by Ruth Vanita

Ruth Vanita | Sappho and the Virgin Mary | In this book, Vanita engages these two central icons of Western cultural mythology to rethink the concept of literary ancestry. Uncovering layers of l

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Seduction And Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick | Seduction And Betrayal | The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she conside

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Revolting Librarians by Elizabeth Katz; Celeste West

Elizabeth Katz; Celeste West | Revolting Librarians | A collection of stories about librarians, libraries, books and people.