"Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described asromans à clef, providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented same-sex desire through the e…
"Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics.…
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 gendered screen: Canadian women filmmakers
A sweeping memoir, a raw and intimate chronicle of a young activist torn between conflicting personal longings and political goals. When We Were Outlaws offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women's Liberation, and…
"Bridging the gap between feminist studies of motherhood and queer theory, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood articulates a provocative philosophy of queer kinship that need not be rooted in lesbian or gay sexual identities. Working from an interdisciplinary framework that i…
"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…