Heroic Desire performs its title--bold, challenging, seductive, and compelling--a vital and exciting addition to the discourse on lesbian identities, their dissolves and perpetual becomings. Sure to incite and inspire." Lynda Hart, Author of Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression "Right on the edge of exciting and daring ......
To date, lesbian and gay history has focused largely on the East and West coasts, and on urban settings such as New York and San Francisco. The American South, on the other hand, identified with religion, traditional gender roles, and cultural conservatism, has escaped attention. Southerners celebrate their past; lesbians and gays celebrate their ......
The lesbian and gay history has focused largely on the East and West coasts, and on urban settings such as New York and San Francisco. This title examines lesbian and gay experiences in Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
Contains essays that focus on how Woolf's public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. This book includes personal narratives that trace the experience of reading Woolf through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. It provides lesbian interpretations of novels, including Orlando, The Waves, and The Years.
Deals with Virginia Woolf's lesbianism. This title focuses on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels.
Reading Lives, Reading Cultures (A Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Book)
Emphasizing the interconnectedness of gay and lesbian lives and the literature which has been instrumental in defining, reconstructing, and representing these lives, this study serves as a diverse introduction to queer culture and literature.
The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures ......
Features a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell in love in the summer of 1934. These letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women.
Friends as lovers; lovers as friends; ex-lovers as friends; ex-lovers as family; friends as family; communities of friends; lesbian community. These are just a few of the phrases heard often in the daily discourse of lesbian life. What significance do they have for lesbians? Do lesbians view friends as family and what does this analogy mean? What ......
