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Sex Variant Women in Literature by Jeannette Foster

Jeannette 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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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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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 Lesbian South by Jaime Harker

Jaime Harker | The Lesbian South | In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the W

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Making Girls into Women by Kathryn R. Kent

Kathryn R. Kent | Making Girls into Women | Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of ‘the lesbian’ by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wome

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Lesbian Scandal And The Culture Of Modernism by Jodie Medd

Jodie Medd | Lesbian Scandal And The Culture Of Modernism | ‘Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-

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Insane Passions by Christine E. Coffman

Christine E. Coffman | Insane Passions | In France in 1933, two sisters, presumed to be lovers, murdered the women who employed them as maids. Known as ‘the Papin affair,’ the incident inspir

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Dangerous Intimacies by Lisa L. Moore

Lisa L. Moore | Dangerous Intimacies | Refuting commonly held beliefs within womenrs’s and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel,Dangerous Intimacieschallenges the id

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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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Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives by Marilyn R. Farwell

Marilyn R. Farwell | Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives | What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly)