Making Girls Into Women - American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity

"In the pages of American women's literature, lesbians are made, not born. Kathryn R. Kent expertly surveys the many creative acts of instruction, imitation, and invention among women that ultimately make modern lesbian identity more than just a product of medical discourse. At the heart of all these narratives of self-fashioning lies a central paradox: girls can only freely invent themselves by imitating someone else. Kent brilliantly profiles both sides of these mimetic couples (mothers and daughters, teachers and students, lovers and friends), demonstrating in the end that imitation is inevitably a two-way street."--Diana Fuss, author of "Identification Papers"

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kathryn R Kent, Kathryn R. Kent
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.01.2003
• EAN: 9780822330165
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3016-5
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 245 mm x 26 mm
• Peso: 594 g
• Serie: Series Q
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese