Romancing the Margins?
Subtitle: Lesbian Writing in the 1990s
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781560231288
Subjects: Lesbian studies; Literary studies: general; c 1990 to c 2000; History and criticism; English-speaking countries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; Lesbians' writings, English; Homosexuality and literature; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gay & Lesbian; 20th century; History; Lesbians' writings, American
First sentence: When the call for papers for this volume went out in a great variety of journals, newsletters, and bulletins, most of them specifically mentioning 'lesbian' or 'lesbian and gay' in their title, one of the first papers, symptomatic in some respects of the rest, to appear on my desk was one by a man producing a densely argued piece about Gertrude Stein-with not a mention of her lesbianism.
Description: "'Romancing the Margins?' engages with current debates in lesbian and gender studies about the construction of lesbian identities at the intersection of race, class, and sexuality." "Questions are asked about the construction of lesbian characters in 1990s lesbian texts, and the ways in which these reflect current preoccupations with the notion of the instability of identity."--BOOK JACKET.