Heavenly Love?: Lesbian Images in Twentieth-century Women's Writing Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Heavenly Love?: Lesbian Images in Twentieth-century Women's Writing Book

"Heavenly Love?" questions assumptions about lesbian identity in the 20th century by looking in detail at writers such as Radclyffe Hall, Adrienne Rich, Joanna Russ, Jane Rule and Jeanette Winterson. This book begins with the early work of sexologists, such as Havelock Ellis and Edward Carpenter. It explores the change in the image of the lesbian from "pathetic", pathologised, deviant and isolated, to the defiant, feisty and communal figure of today. Gabriele Griffin argues that the politicization of women in the 1960s and 1970s enabled lesbians to move "from twilight to limelight" - both in society and in literature.Read More

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  • 0719028817
  • 9780719028816
  • Gabriele Griffin
  • 21 October 1993
  • Manchester University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 202
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