This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against reading as a 'woman' or as a 'heterosexual'. Contributors both explore the uses of recent theories such as post-structuralism and offer a lesbian critique of such methodologies. Close readings of contemporary lesbian fiction and popular culture focus on works such as Zami, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Wanderground , and Desert of the Heart as well as on lesbian pornography. Together the essays point to lesbian culture's ...
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This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against reading as a 'woman' or as a 'heterosexual'. Contributors both explore the uses of recent theories such as post-structuralism and offer a lesbian critique of such methodologies. Close readings of contemporary lesbian fiction and popular culture focus on works such as Zami, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Wanderground , and Desert of the Heart as well as on lesbian pornography. Together the essays point to lesbian culture's ability to create new meanings for iteself and to foreground the intertextuality of lesbian identities.Contributors: Sonya Andemahr, Lisa Henderson, Hilary Hinds, Katie King, Reina Lewis, Sally Munt, Gillian Spraggs, Angela Weir, Anna Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson, and Bonnie Zimmerman.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN: 9780745011677.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Fine. First edition. Paperback Fine in wrappers. Like new. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xxii, 207 pp. Contents: Lesbians like this and that: some notes on lesbian criticism for the nineties / Bonnie Zimmerman--The death of the author and the resurrection of the dyke / Reina Lewis--'Somewhere over the rainbow...': postmodernism and the fiction of Sarah Schulman / Sally Munt--Audre Lorde's lacquered layerings: the lesbian bar as a site of literary production / Katie King--Audre Lorde and the African-American tradition: when the family is not enough / Anna Wilson--The Greyhound Bus Station in the evolution of lesbian popular culture / Angela Weir and Elizabeth Wilson--Hell and the mirror: a reading of Desert of the heart / Gillian Spraggs--The politics of separatism and lesbian utopian fiction / Sonya Andermahr--Oranges are not the only fruit: reaching audiences other lesbian texts cannot reach / Hilary Hinds--Lesbian pornography: cultural transgression and sexual demystification / Lisa Henderson.
