Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the PresentLillian Faderman Lesbian and bisexual literature over the past four centuries, tracing the evolution of the genre from romantic friendship, through the exotic and evil, to the explicitly sexual. An example of exotic and evil is provided by Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 vampire novella, Carmilla. By the author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. |
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Page 549
... feminist writing constituted an unprecedented shift from what had been a largely male - influenced depiction of lesbianism to a lit- erature that demanded that women define entirely for themselves what lesbianism meant . In lesbian - ...
... feminist writing constituted an unprecedented shift from what had been a largely male - influenced depiction of lesbianism to a lit- erature that demanded that women define entirely for themselves what lesbianism meant . In lesbian - ...
Page 551
... feminist move- ment and the literature connected to it provided little place for them . They believed that the white , middle - class - dominated lesbian - feminist movement had imported the racism of the parent culture into their ...
... feminist move- ment and the literature connected to it provided little place for them . They believed that the white , middle - class - dominated lesbian - feminist movement had imported the racism of the parent culture into their ...
Page 570
... feminist thought . Her post - 1970s work has focused somewhat less on lesbian - feminism and more on various other abiding personal and political concerns . For example , her most recent volumes of poetry , Your Native Land , Your Life ...
... feminist thought . Her post - 1970s work has focused somewhat less on lesbian - feminism and more on various other abiding personal and political concerns . For example , her most recent volumes of poetry , Your Native Land , Your Life ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
Copyright | |
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