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Siesing, Gina Michellle. "Fictional democracies : the formation of lesbian-feminist literary publics /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textSteffensen, Jyanni. "Queering Freud : textual (re)configurations of lesbian desire and sexuality /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs8174.pdf.
Full textLinné, Robert Andrew. "Alternative reading lists : personal literacy histories of gays and lesbians /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textHernandez, Lisa Justine. "Chicana feminist voices in search of Chicana lesbian voices from Aztlán to cyberspace /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037497.
Full textSmith, Jenna. "Spectacular lesbians : visual histories in Winterson, Waters, and Humphreys." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99392.
Full textRogers, Donna Ann. "Elizabeth Bishop and her women countering loss, love, and language through Bishop's homosocial continuum /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002044.
Full textWinkelmann, Cathrin. "The limits of representation? : the expression and repression of desire in 20th-century German lesbian narratives." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38437.
Full textDrawing on diverse lesbian-feminist and queer strains of criticism, this study provides a close examination of the narrative elements, strategies, and styles used to inscribe lesbian desire into the literary works selected for analysis. The investigation explores how these texts utilize narrative conceptualizations of lesbian desire, critiques of heterophallocentric language and representation, and strategies to create lesbian narrative spaces that challenge the heterosexual presumptions and trajectories which traditionally underlie conventional Western romance narratives. The constructions of "lesbian" identity presented in the texts are fundamentally connected to the creation and operation of these narrative spaces. Thus, in order to contextualize my interpretations and literary analyses, I situate the texts in the respective socio-historical and political contexts in which they were written and received.
The unresolved problems, prevailing tensions, and their individual differences notwithstanding, the narratives examined here collectively contribute to a lesbian counterdiscourse to the 20th-century German literary establishment. By exploring the strategies invoked in these texts to represent a desiring textual lesbian subjectivity, this study hopes to make visible a tradition of Germanlanguage lesbian literature---a fragmented and often marginalized literature---over the last century and to offer German literary studies insights from the periphery of the dominant heterosexual culture. However, this investigation simultaneously and paradoxically also contests the very positioning of German lesbian literature and criticism at the margins by proposing their strategic integration into the German literary canon.
Shaw, Patricia M. "Lesbian women and AIDS : a literature review and discussion group for lesbian women on sexual health and safer sex education for prevention of HIV infection." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118289.
Full textHawkins, Damaris. ""They say she is veiled": A rhetorical analysis of Judy Grahn's poetry." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2941.
Full textLobdell, Bambi Lyn. "A man in all that the name implies reclassification of Lucy Ann/Joseph Israel Lobdell /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
Find full textDunzweiler, Krista J. "Saving America's gays and lesbians from hell : a fantasy theme criticism of the anti-gay rhetoric of the far-right." Scholarly Commons, 2000. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/536.
Full textNilsson, Camilla. "Går det att hitta lesbiska kioskromaner på svenska folkbibliotek? : Ett diskursanalytiskt perspektiv på en osynlig genre." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323931.
Full textPayne, Robert Oliver. "Reimagining the family? : lesbian mothering in French literature." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41211.
Full textFloerke, Jennifer Jodelle. "A queer look at feminist science fiction: Examing Sally Miller Gearhart's The Kanshou." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2889.
Full textHanmer, Rosalind Maria. "Understanding lesbian fandom : a case study of the Xena: Warrior Princess (XSTT) lesbian internet fans." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1536/.
Full textHall, Karen Jeanne. "The Lesbian Politics of Transgressions: Reading Shirley Jackson." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391684225.
Full textGordon, Sharon Rosamunde. "Representations of feminist and lesbian consciousness and the use of subversive strategies in selected poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873)." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2016. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453489.
Full textStratton, Sarah Louise. "More than throw-away fiction : investigating lesbian pulp fiction through the lens of a lesbian textual community." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8245/.
Full textPadfield, Lisa Rae. "Colliding constructs : exploring discourses regarding traditional marriage and lesbian marriage : a literature review." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/700.
Full textReed, Clare Louise. "Crises of identity in Jewish American lesbian literature from 1979 to the present." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553051.
Full textLowery, Penelope Jane. "Lesbian literatures of age and identity : the 'in-between worlds' within ageing." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/32232.
Full textMoore, Terry L. "Twilight and Shadows: The Lesbian Presence in Film Noir." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1393075233.
Full textStewart, Faye. "Queer investigations genre, geography, and sexuality in German-language lesbian crime fiction /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3290757.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4721. Adviser: Claudia Breger. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 22, 2008).
Busch, Rebecca. "An analysis of research and literature on school climate experiences of gay and lesbian youth." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006buschr.pdf.
Full textPeisach, Joshua Benjamin. "Uses of queer : critiquing representations of gay and lesbian 'identity' in contemporary literature and film /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arp379.pdf.
Full textMurphy, Amy Tooth. "Reading the lives between the lines : lesbian literature and oral history in post-war Britain." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4243/.
Full textMcGee, Christina. "A school counselor's guide to supporting and protecting students who are homosexual in high school a literature review and analysis /." Online version, 2009. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2009/2009mcgeec.pdf.
Full textWilkerson, Virginia Lee. "Vestiges of the vampire : rediscovering the monstrous in contemporary lesbian poetry." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=201684.
Full textAndermahr, Sonya. "Difference, identification and desire : contemporary lesbian genre fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1993. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/39002/.
Full textJones, Caroline E. Tarr C. Anita. "Female sexuality in young adult literature." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225117161&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177689304&clientId=43838.
Full textTitle from title page screen, viewed on April 27, 2007. Dissertation Committee: C. Anita Tarr (chair), Roberta Seelinger Trites, Jan Christopher Susina. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-208) and abstract. Also available in print.
Rodriguez, de Rivera Itziar. "Mujeres de Papel: Figuras de la "Lesbiana" en la Literatura y Cultura Españolas, 1868-1936." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10604.
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Santos, Claudiana Gois dos. "A Bruta Flor do Querer: amor, performance e heteronormatividade na representação das personagens lésbicas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-27092018-121402/.
Full textThe literature, instrument of representation and inquiry to social behaviors, can induce the discussion about gender and social roles and also suggest the adoption of ideas and attitudes. The representation of lesbian characters affectivity, in its relatively recent and modest occurance in the story of Literature, receives the importance of the feminine delimitations against the falogocentric canon. The behavioral characteristics imposed to the womens subjectivities are so widely applied that are also natural in the occidental culture speeches, becoming a kind of regulation guide of the loving performance. Such normativity still focuses on the representation of homoaffective relations, what many times reinforces stereotypes in a hierarchical and heteronormative tendency of sexist differentiation and valuation. So, the objective of this dissertation is to establish the differences among the characters from the texts O Corpo, by Clarice Lispector (1974), Eu sou uma Lésbica, by Cassandra Rios (1982) and Azul é a Cor mais Quente, by Julie Maroh (2013) to analyze the lesbian affectivity representation and the heteronormativity incidence in these rising characters in the literature of the last decades of the XX century and the beginning of the XXI century using as an theorical apparatus the Feminist Literary Criticism and the Genre Studies above all based on Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Adrienne Rich and Monique Wittigs works,. For this, it is necessary to take into consideration the differences among the three literary genres from the corpus and their respective supports which indicate a popularization of this type of protagonism, as well as its reception by critics and the public.
Bourque, Dominique. "De l'intertextualité mythique dans Le Corps lesbien de Monique Wittig." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10023.
Full textSetzer, Katharine Adrienne. "Playing on-line : sexual subjectivity, gender play and the construction of the dyke SM fantasy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54267.pdf.
Full textGraham, Chelsea. "Defanged and Desirable: An Examination of Violence and the Lesbian Vampire Narrative." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460127837.
Full textWood, Meredith Abner. "Breaking the Formula: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Fiction." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625560.
Full textWaters, Sarah Ann. "Wolfskins and togas lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present /." Thesis, Online version, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.393332.
Full textMercado, Narváez Gabriela. "Demythification of Romantic Love in the West: An Analysis of Little Narratives in José Luis Sampedro’s El Amante Lesbiano." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-57997.
Full textZimmerman, Nicole M. "Self-concept, resiliency, and identity factors among gay and lesbian individuals a review and critique of the literature /." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000zimmermann.pdf.
Full textParker, Sarah Louise. "The lesbian muse : homoeroticism, female poetic identity and contemporary muse figures." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3498/.
Full textRogers, Donna. "ELIZABETH BISHOP AND HER WOMEN:COUNTERING LOSS, LOVE, AND LANGUAGE THROUGH BISHOP'S HOMOSOCIAL CONTINUUM." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2992.
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Falconi, Diego. "De las cenizas al texto: transgresiones identitarias gays, lesbianas y queer en el ordenamiento literario andino contemporáneo." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/96536.
Full textThe literature of sexual diversities, ie, those that articulate GLBTTIQ subjectivities (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) in the region of the Andes have been addressed very rarely for several reasons. This thesis seeks to show the existence of certain characteristics that shape the genealogical discourse around sexualities, which are evident in several contemporary literary documents, as well as it tries to unveil some of the reasons why Andean literature has not been included in those documents. In order to do this, and thanks to the interdisciplinarity of comparative literature and literary theory, I propose a scheme that attempts to merge the concept of legal normative order with a humanistic criticism around the body. All this is presented as a genealogic exercise that uses law as an application model that frames the concept of transgression. At the same time, in order to contextualize this model, I will review the basic principles that articulate the Andean region in a discursive way. This explanation aims to configure a particular system with different subjectivities operating within and outside the literary text to form an overview of the Andean literatures. The practical part of my thesis presents three cases that apply the theoretical scheme through three authors who work the identity issues of sexual diversities: Pablo Palacio, Julieta Paredes y Fernando Vallejo. These cases will also allow the articulation of issues and topics found in the area's cultural polysystem through a poetic and narrative analysis. This approach seeks to propose postulates that will restore as up to date the notion of Andean literature. It will also divert the reading in the search of an Andean literary counter-canon based on postcolonial and gender readings. Starting with the principles of heterogeneity and contradictory literature by Cornejo Polar, there is an attempt in this thesis to talk about the variety of representations in the area, about the coexistence of their bodies and subjectivities, and about issues that differentiate the literature of the region. All this seeks to propose a counter-canon and a new Andean literature based on the political view of gender and sexuality studies.
Bergdahl, Liv Saga. "Kärleken utan namn : Identitet och (o)synlighet i svenska lesbiska romaner." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-32516.
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Weber, Susan G. "Undermining Heteronormativity in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1395238012.
Full textGillingham, Erica. "Lesbian love stories in young adult literature and graphic memoirs : narrative constructions of same-sex relationships between female characters across genre and form." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2018. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Lesbian-Love-Stories-in-Young-Adult-Literature-and-Graphic-Memoirs(e1d18ba0-5f12-4b61-9aa2-8f891ce00982).html.
Full textMalek, Elska Ray. "Running away with the concubine, lesbianism and Larissa Lai's When fox is a thousand." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58355.pdf.
Full textSäfwenberg, Nike Linn. "CROSS[DRESS]ING BOUNDARIES : En tematisk queeranalys av Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet och Jeanette Wintersons Written on the Body." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1046.
Full textThe aim of this essay is to answer the question of how – in what ways – Jeanette Wintersons Written on the Body and Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet are queer texts. My method is that of a thematic analysis, focusing on words and phenomenon related to definitions of the multi facetted term “queer”. The analysis covers themes of lesbian focus, performativity, performance, speech-acts, and heteronormative and queer relationships. My results are presented in a dialogue between the novels themes and queer theory, foremost represented by Judith Butler. My conclusion is that the literary texts are indeed queer, in several ways, and that both of them, although different, serve important queer purposes.
Purich, Monica Lynn. "Writing, Translating, and Dismembering: Fallon, Winterson, and Wittig's Representations of the Lesbian Body." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1277413109.
Full textJerome, Collin. "Queer Melayu : queer sexualities and the politics of Malay identity and nationalism in contemporary Malaysian literature and culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39644/.
Full textMóntez, Melissa I. "Let Your Panza be Your Guide: Decolonizing Fat in Chicanx Art and Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/856.
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