Damned women
Subtitle: lesbians in French novels, 1796-1996
By: Jennifer Waelti-Walters.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Lesbians in literature; French fiction -- History and criticism; Lesbians' writings, French -- History and criticism; French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: A note on translations and sources; title: Introduction; title: Pt. 1. The male gaze, 1796-1929. 1. Damned women: the prototypes ; 2. Contrasting attitudes: male and female writers; title: Pt. 2. Through women's eyes, 1929-1968. 3. Constrained desires ; 4. Contrasting generations: Leduc and Beauvoir, Wittig and Cixous; title: Pt. 3. Specifically French lesbians, 1968-1996. 5. Exporing lesbian identity ; 6. Contrasting perspectives: François, Best, and Monferrand; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Appendix: French quotations; title: Bibliography. A. French lesbian novels ; B. Works cited and general works on lesbianism in France ; C. Sources of French medical attitudes to lesbianism, 1870-1960 ; D. Bibliographies of lesbian fiction; title: Index.