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.)
"Passions between women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts, and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century."--
Gloria E. Anzaldúa, best known for her books Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back, is one of the foremost feminist thinkers and activists of our time. As one of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Anzaldúa has played a major role in redefining queer, fema…
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.
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…
"The Sexuality of History shows that just as we can understand sexuality by studying the past, so too can we understand the past by studying sexuality"--Page 4 of cover.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, as European cultures grappled with the challenges of emergent modernity, ideas about female same-sex relations became a flash-point for contests about authority and liberty, power and difference, desire and duty, mobility and change, order and…
