Beyond sex and romance?
Subtitle: the politics of contemporary lesbian fiction
By: Elaine Hutton, editor
Contributors: Hutton, Elaine
Publisher: Women's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Lesbians in literature; Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Other titles: Politics of contemporary lesbian fiction
Description: Elaine Hutton examines the current state of lesbian literature and questions whether it continues to be relevant to lesbians. She asks whether the literature is now simply perpetuating heterosexual ideologies instead of challenging them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The education of May Sarton : love between women in four novels by May Sarton / Lis Whitelaw; title: The state of the heart : ideology and narrative structure in the novels of Maureen Duffy and Caeia March / Anira Rowanchild; title: Woebegone dykes : the novels of Lisa Alther / Vada Hart; title: Lesbian writers in the mainstream : Sara Maitland, Jeanette Winterson and Emma Donoghue / Rachel Wingfield; title: Lindsay Gordon meets Kate Brannigan : mainstreaming or malestreaming : representations of women crime fighters / Jill Radford; title: Blackening my characters : race and characterisation in lesbian fiction / Anita Naoko Pilgrim; title: Beyond sex and romance? Lesbian relationships in contemporary fiction / Lynne Horne; title: Zero tolerance in wonderland : some political uses of imagination / Elaine Miller; title: Good lesbians, bad men, and happy endings / Elaine Hutton