Sisterhoods by Deborah Cartmell; I. Q. Hunter; Heidi Kaye; Imelda Whelehan

In this latest book in the successful Film/Fiction series, the contributors concentrate on recent portrayals of female relationships -- communities, friends, lovers, sisters, daughters, mothers and women against women -- and examine the ways in which the subject is positioned in different media for both male and female consumption.Sisterhoods explores the blend of 'high' and 'low' culture in literature and film. In specially commissioned chapters, contributors examine representations of female detectives, lesbian relationships in popular historical novels, the return of 'Cat Woman', feminist utopias of the 1980s, the screening of Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and the unlikely pairing of Virginia Woolf and Jane Campion.This is a lively, stimulating collection of new thinking and fresh insights into one of the enduring themes in literary and media studies.