Kent / Barale / Goldberg Making Girls into Women

American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8457-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Series Q

Explores the links between the emergence of lesbian and proto-lesbian identities at the turn of the century and the discourses of sentimentality, mass culture, and modernism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kent, Kathryn R.

Barale, Michèle Aina

Goldberg, Jonathan

Moon, Michael

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. "Single White Female”: The Sexual Politics of Spinsterhood in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown Folks

2. "Trying All Kinds”: Louisa May Alcott’s Pedagogic Erotics

3. "Scouting for Girls”: Reading and Recruitment in the Early Twentieth Century

4. "Excreate a No Sense”: The Erotic Currency of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons

5. The M Multiplying: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Pleasures of Influence, Part I

6. Influence and Invitation: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Pleasures of Influence, Part II

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn R. Kent is Assistant Professor of English at Williams College.