Volcanoes and pearl divers : essays in lesbian feminist studies
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Volcanoes and pearl divers : essays in lesbian feminist studies
Harrington Park Press, 1995
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Volcanoes and Pearl Divers is a vibrant anthology of UK-based essays about English language lesbian writers from the 17th century to the present, including analysis of lesbian film and theater. Literary criticism here includes hard-to-find authors, as well as new perspectives on well-known lesbian writers. The contributing authors vary in their approach, their background and their interests, but all celebrate lesbian culture, past and present. Volcanoes and Pearl Divers is about what lesbian feminists find when they go diving for the pearls of their own lost culture and about the mourning, but also the triumph, of that process of recovery. This collection offers an image of the search for, and the eruption of, lesbian-feminists'desire, anger, and love.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction
Cold Start
'The Vices of Old Rome Revived': Representations of Female Same-Sex Desire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England
Establishing Her Own Landmarks: A Lesbian-Feminist Reading of the Work of Mary Taylor, Essayist and Novelist, 1817-1893
Fallen Women: Charlotte Mew in Context
"The One Woman (in Virgin Haunts of Poesie)": Michael Field's Sapphic Symbolism
Make of Our Lives a Study: Reading and Writing Lesbain Biography
Listening to Minna: Realism and Feminist Reading
'Written on Tablets of Stone'? Jeanette Winterson, Roland Barthes, and the Discourse of Romantic Love
Noises From Woodsheds: The Muffled Voices of Irish Lesbian Fiction
Lesbian Representations From Text to Screen: Mermaids in the Desert . . . Must Be Seeing Things
Fluid Lines
The Whole Nine Yards
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