The Safe Sea of Women
Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989
Bonnie Zimmerman
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Analyzing 167 novels and short story collections labeled lesbian, Zimmerman positions each at a sign post along the route of the archetypal lesbian hero: traveler toward self-discovery, exclusionary love, and search for community. Fiction writers generally lay their heads on the block of critical analysis all the time, and lesbian writers, if acknowledged, find theirs in the basket more often than not. Their work called upon here to be representative of a truth about any one of the way-stations along Zimmerman’s three-stage lesbian pilgrimage is both honor and hazard. A professor of women’s studies at San Diego State University and selfaffirmed lesbian, Bonnie Zimmerman has been there. She argues with insight, candor, forbearance and readable prose, deconstructing each text with a merciful minimum of jargon. Acknowledging a small bias, she defines her audience as a ‘composite feminist academic lesbian activist.’ Caveat aside, for readers interested in exploring an unfamiliar genre, here against its historical background and with a look to its future, is a discerning overview of lesbian fiction of the last twenty years. There is, as well, a useful index, and a bibliography for well-read lesbians to pick up on anything they may have missed. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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| ISBN | 807079138 |
| Genre | Award Winner; Literary Criticism |
| Copyright Date | 1990 |
| Publication Date | Aug-91 |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 273 |
| Award | Emily Toth Award – 1991 |
| Notes | Emily Toth Award for the Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women’s Issues in Popular and American Culture in a specific year. Emily Toth is a pioneer in both Women’s Studies and in Popular Culture. She is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Louisiana State University and is the author of Unveiling Kate Chopin, and Kate Chopin (biography). She also writes an advice column for women in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2002, she compiled her counsel and published it as Ms. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Award | Emily Toth Award – 1991 |
| BookID | 10954 |
