Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction
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In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures.
From her earliest novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept of a fixed identity and to the identity...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814781330
ISBN13:9780814781333
Release Date:June 1999
Publisher:New York University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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