num_pages: 231
description: This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American whiteness.
language: English
title: Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories
titlecomplete: Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan