Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space

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A&C Black, Jan 1, 1998 - Social Science - 184 pages
In the LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES series this work draws on literary and cultural theory to demonstrate the ways in which lesbian identities are ascribed and resisted. It looks at the identity models of the hero, the flaneur and the lesbian outlaw as well as lesbian 'space' both materially and imaginatively.

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Contents

1 The Lesbian Hero
1
2 The Lesbian Flâneur
30
3 The Butch Body
54
4 The Lesbian Outlaw
95
5 The Lesbian Nation
132
6 Lesbians and Space
162
Index
182
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