Sexual Practice/textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism

Susan J. Wolfe, Julia Penelope

Blackwell Publishers, 1993 - Literary Collections - 388 pages

What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist criticism / Bonnie Zimmerman -- Two feminist criticisms : a necessary conflict? / Anne Charles -- Toward a definition of the lesbian literary imagination / Marilyn R Farwell -- Gender as performance : Shakespearean ambiguity and the lesbian reader / Paula Bennett -- Waiting for stonewall / Sarah Dreher -- Perverse reading : the lesbian appropriation of literature / Bonnie Zimmerman -- Subverting closure : compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory endings in middle-class British women's novels / Diana L Swanson -- Reading Deephaven as a lesbian text / Judith Fetterley -- Sexual narrative in the fiction of Djuna Barnes / Carolyn J. Allen -- Modernity and lesbian identity in the later works of Nicole Brossard / Marthe Rosenfeld --From isolation to diversity ; self and communities in twentieth-century lesbian novels / Linnea A. Stenson -- Zami and the politics of plural identity / Erin G. Carlston -- Separatism and feminist utopian fiction / Diane Griffin Crowder -- Liberating laughter : comedic form in some lesbian novels / Louise Kawada -- Lesbian intertextuality / Elaine Marks -- Mirrors and likeness : a lesbian aesthetic in the making / Toni A. H. McNaron -- Poetic politics : How the Amazons took the Acropolis / Jeffner Allen -- Under the covers : a synesthesia of desire (lesbian translations) / Alice Parker -- An annotated bibliography of lesbian literary critical theory, 1970-1989 / Linda Garber, with Vilashini Cooppan.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sexual Practice/textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism
• Editors: Susan J. Wolfe, Julia Penelope
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers, 1993
• ISBN: 1557861013, 9781557861016
• Length: 388 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / General