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 ix
... literature included in this book was written - although many of the writers and subjects of these works had affectional and sexual relations with both women and men . The term " bisexual " has become current only in the twentieth ...
... literature included in this book was written - although many of the writers and subjects of these works had affectional and sexual relations with both women and men . The term " bisexual " has become current only in the twentieth ...
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... literature. But none of these criteria can be inclusive of the whole of lesbian literature. Zimmerman is somewhat persuasive, for example, in suggesting that lesbian literature deals with flexibility of gender roles and a fascination ...
... literature. But none of these criteria can be inclusive of the whole of lesbian literature. Zimmerman is somewhat persuasive, for example, in suggesting that lesbian literature deals with flexibility of gender roles and a fascination ...
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... literature , the right to define who the lesbian was . Though lesbian - feminist definitions came to be seen as too confining by the end of the 1980s , lesbian authors no longer felt obliged to cut their characters to match the pattern ...
... literature , the right to define who the lesbian was . Though lesbian - feminist definitions came to be seen as too confining by the end of the 1980s , lesbian authors no longer felt obliged to cut their characters to match the pattern ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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