Kathryn R Kent

Making Girls Into Women

American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330301
• ISBN-10: 082233030X
• Artikelnr.: 22173255

Autorenporträt

Kathryn R. Kent

Inhaltsangabe

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