In this memoir-like collection, Anzalduá recounts her life, explains many aspects of her thought, and explores the intersections between her writings and postcolonial theory.
"Passions between women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts, and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century."--
"A feminist reading of Radcliffe Hall's international bestseller and her both inspiring and infuriating heroine Stephen Gordon. She includes a fascinating survey of readers' responses to the book. This book should be of interest to general readers and students and teachers in wo…
Noble, accomplished, wealthy, self-sacrificing, and honourable, Stephen Gordon is the perfect hero,' says Rebecca O'Rourke. But Stephen is a woman, and a lesbian. Here is an indication of the tantalizing complexity of The Well of Loneliness. Banned for obscenity when first publi…
Living in the Lesbian's Former Future: A Media Historiography of Imagination for When the Present Is Past -- Feminist Media in Movement: The National Women's Film Circuit and International Videoletters -- Producing Freedom: 1970s Feminist Documentary and Women's Prison Activism …
"Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s explores how the sign of the lesbian was taken up by 1970s feminists in their creative and cultural work in broad attempts at reimagining gender and sexual existence. Feminist art, literature, music, and films circulated thro…
"In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus, in particular, on their open attitude toward erotic love between women. By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, she reveals a medieval French literary discourse on same-…
"In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus, in particular, on their open attitude toward erotic love between women. By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, she reveals a medieval French literary discourse on same-…
Virginia Woolf: lesbian readings
by Barrett, Eileen, Cramer, Patricia
fromThe cutting edge
Virginia Woolf: lesbian readings
by Barrett, Eileen, Cramer, Patricia
fromCutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
Virginia Woolf: lesbian readings
by Barrett, Eileen, Cramer, Patricia
fromCutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch court records, in passionate ver…