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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.
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Steffensen, 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.
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Linné, Robert Andrew. "Alternative reading lists : personal literacy histories of gays and lesbians /". Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Hernandez, 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.
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Smith, 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.
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As many theorists have pointed out, queer history is often erased within traditional, heteronormative historiography. Consequently, historians cannot recount the gay and lesbian past by conventional techniques of evidence and documentation. Instead they recuperate and reinvent queer history using strategies normally associated with the writing of fiction. This thesis examines three works of late twentieth century lesbian historical fiction that rewrite the past in order to render visible queer intimacy, sexuality, and desire. Jeanette Winterson's The Passion (1987), Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet (1998), and Helen Humphreys' Leaving Earth (1997) employ spectacularly visible lesbian heroines who symbolically reverse lesbian invisibility in mainstream historical narratives by displaying themselves as public figures or stage performers. There are ongoing debates in contemporary queer theory and historiography about the extent to which it is politically useful to privilege highly visible individuals when recovering the marginalized gay and lesbian past. Winterson's, Waters', and Humphreys' novels enact this debate, and exemplify a trend in contemporary lesbian historical fiction in which lesbian heroines are empowered by their ability to control their own visibility and to ensure the perpetuation of their history.
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Rogers, 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.
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Winkelmann, 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.
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This study investigates the expression and repression of desire in four 20th-century German-language lesbian prose texts. I examine in chronological order three novels and one novella: Der Skorpion (1919) by Anna Elisabet Weirauch; Lyrische Novelle (1933) by the Swiss author Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Der Schlachter empfiehlt noch immer Herz (1976) by Margot Schroeder; and, finally, Bilder von ihr (1996) by Karen-Susan Fessel. While not concentrating on any single literary work, the excursus on texts from the period between the Third Reich and the Second Feminist Movement in Germany provides a brief analysis of the (lack of) lesbian literary developments during this time.Drawing 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.
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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.
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Research on AIDS and women is recent and focuses almost exclusively on the heterosexual population. Despite research on the sexual behavior of young women which asserts that lesbians are at low risk for exposure to HTV, many lesbians engage in high risk practices and are therefore at risk for infection. In order for AIDS education for this population to be effective, it must be designed spedfically to meet identified needs. [...]
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Hawkins, 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.
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Lobdell, Bambi Lyn. "A man in all that the name implies reclassification of Lucy Ann/Joseph Israel Lobdell /". Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Dunzweiler, 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.
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This thesis investigates the worldview of six rhetors of the far-right using the rhetorical method of fantasy theme analysis. The specific rhetors examined in this study are Peter J. Peters, Dan Gayman, Edward Fields, Fred Phelps, Jeny Falwell, and James Dobson. In order to understand the discourse of the six rhetors, five research questions were developed to guide the study: (1) What are the images portrayed of homosexuals and gay rights advocates in the fantasy themes of the rhetors examined in this study? (2) What are the images portrayed of Christians in the fantasy themes of the rhetors examined in this study? (3) How do the fantasy themes differ in extremity among the rhetors of the far-tight with regard to homosexuality and supporters of gay lights? (4) How do the fantasy themes of the rhetors work together to create a rhetolical vision for the far-light regarding homosexuality? (5) How do the collective fantasy themes of the far-right rhetors potentially influence actions against and aggression towards homosexuals? In order to answer these questions, a fantasy theme analysis was conducted on various artifacts of the six rhetors chosen for examination in this thesis. The analysis indicated that the fantasy themes of the rhetors work together to create a rhetorical vision in which a drama is played out. In this drama, homosexuals and supporters of gay rights are depicted as villains and fundamentalist Christians are characterized as heroes. Through the depictions of these characters and their actions the ultimate ideal of America as a country is provided. This ultimate ideal focuses on a setting where homosexuals do not exist and gay rights is not an issue. Through these fantasy themes the rhetors encourage America's patriots and fundamentalist Christians to remove homosexuals from society. In addition, the collective rhetorical vision of the six rhetors provides motives for aggressive actions against homosexuals, including acts of violence.
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Nilsson, 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.
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The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine how Swedish public libraries approach and regard lesbian pulp fiction as a genre, from both a historical and modern perspective, and also to visualize and critique the surrounding discourses that influence the perception and reception of the genre. The method is twofold and consists of qualitative interviews as well as discourse analysis inspired by Foucault. The data consists of interviews with three librarians responsible for library collections, selection and purchase of new library materials which is combined with a survey reading of Biblioteksbladet, the periodical of Svensk Biblioteksförening, from 1945–1990. Michel Foucaults theories on discourses and the principles and mechanisms of exclusion, and Pierre Bourdieus theories on taste and distinction, guide the analysis. The analysis focuses to a great extent on discursive patterns, especially concerning the relationship between popular and quality fiction, and components of Bourdieus field theory and how this contributes to the creation of taste through distinction. Throughout the analysis possible explanations regarding the position of lesbian pulp fiction are given which covers areas from classification and interpretation of literary genres to quality assessment, selection and purchase of literature. The results of the study shows that lesbian pulp fiction is quite invisible in Swedish public libraries which is mainly seen as an effect of discursive practices that surround and influence the genre such as the societal and historical view of homosexuality but also the view on popular literature. Conclusions are that librarians are not making conscious exclusions of lesbian pulp fiction per se, they are if anything quite unaware of the genre’s existence, but that the practices that shape the field of public libraries has contributed to the genre’s position. The study is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science written at Uppsala university.
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Payne, Robert Oliver. "Reimagining the family? : lesbian mothering in French literature". Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41211.
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In the last two decades, gay and lesbian parenting has emerged as a highly contentious subject in France. The creation of the Pacte Civil de Solidarité in 1999 and the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption in 2013 testify to the evolution of gay and lesbian parenting from a hidden practice into a public matter. The growing visibility of gay and lesbian parenting has coincided with the emergence of lesbian mothering as a literary theme. While texts portraying lesbian mothers remain small in number, the fact that most were published after 2000 suggests their being on the rise. This thesis engages with this nascent branch of French literature, focusing on ten texts published between 1970 and 2013. It thus encompasses the period from the birth of the modern gay and lesbian movement until the adoption of same-sex marriage in France. It shows how the texts both reflect changes to the family and contribute to political and theoretical debates on gay and lesbian parenting and, more broadly, to the redefining of mothering and family in twentieth- and twenty-first-century France.
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Floerke, 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.
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This thesis is a queer theory analysis of the feminist science fiction novel The Kanshou by Sally Miller Gearhart. After exploring both male and female authored science fiction in the literature review, two themes were to be dominant. The goal of this thesis is to answer the questions, can the traditional themes that are prevalent in male authored science fiction and feminist science fiction in representing gender and sexual orientation dichotomies be found in The Kanshou? And does Gearhart challenge these dichotomies by destabilizing them? The analysis found determined that Gearhart's The Kanshou does challenge traditional sociological norms of binary gender identities and sexual orientation the majority of the time.
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Hanmer, 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/.
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This thesis is written to promote and pursue an understanding of lesbian fandom and its function on the Internet. It will demonstrate how a particular television text Xena: Warrior Princess (X: WP) and a dedicated online fandom „xenasubtexttalk‟ (XSTT) of diverse lesbian fan membership gained empowerment and agency through their fan practices. Since the screening of the television fantasy series X: WP (1995-2001), there has been a marked increase in academic enquiry into lesbian fan culture on the Internet. This thesis contributes to the lesbian spectatorship of fandom with a specific interest in online fandom. This research suggests there are many readings of X: WP and the dedicated websites set up to discuss the series have increased during and post the series broadcast period. This study explores the contradictions, the gaps, and the differences between fan responses to the series, especially the lesbian discourse and fan fiction that developed during and after the television series ended. This investigation suggests that fan scholarship can obtain a new insight into lesbian Internet fan practices as a virtual space producing new lesbian fan online identities and discourses that challenge traditional forms of lesbian fandom. It does this by presenting three distinct, significant and interrelated layers of lesbian online textual engagement. While interrelated, these layers are separate and important as they each reveal new lesbian online fan performances of identity that challenge traditional performances of reading and writing habits of lesbian fans.
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Hall, Karen Jeanne. "The Lesbian Politics of Transgressions: Reading Shirley Jackson". The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391684225.
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Gordon, 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.
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The purpose of this study is to recover and revise the contribution made to women's writing by the English minor novelist and poet, Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873), who was the centrifugal force of an influential literary and artistic milieu in Italy, in the mid-nineteenth-century. Key figures in the group were the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and the American writer, Henry James. This study is a revisionist critique which questions the prevailing masculine discourse and conventions which oppressed women in terms of their sexual, political and economicfreedom. This, therefore, fits into the Victorian phenomenon of women poets finding their own space and expression against patriarchal norms. My focus on Blagden's poetry, with its scope for liminal/subliminal suggestiveness, enables an explorationof her subversive and transgressive feminist-lesbian poetics. Recent contributions from feminist and lesbian theorists and critics, are examined in order to establish a feminist-lesbian interpretation of gender, sexuality, subversion and transgression. A secondary consideration is Blagden's role in the aesthetic consciousness of others and her apparent inspirational position at the centre of the creative groups of intellectual emigrės in her circle. While most of her friends and acquaintances had a public persona, Blagden did not, and her work has received little discussion anddebate. In order to ensure her significance as a feminist-lesbian poet and Muse, this study will focus on her contribution to nineteenth-century women's poetry. As a contribution to literary scholarship my aim is to bring Blagden in from the margins asa poet of non-canonical status, to one whose status is placed firmly within the continuous literary tradition of radical feminist-lesbian women writers in the nineteenth century.
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Stratton, 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/.
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This thesis argues for, and conducts close reading on, lesbian pulp fiction published in the United States between 1950 and 1965. Though a thorough investigation of a lesbian textual community centred on the lesbian periodical, The Ladder (1956-1952), this thesis forms a lens through which to closely read lesbian pulp fiction novels. This thesis maintains that members of this textual community were invested in literary discussions, as evinced through the publication of book reviews. Moreover, the lesbian textual community of The Ladder actively participated in literary discussions through the ‘Readers Respond’ column. Spring Fire (1952) by Vin Packer and The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (1957 to 1962) by Ann Bannon are investigated for implicit and explicit criticisms of 1950s sexual politics and the politics surrounding lesbian representation in popular media. For the members of The Ladder’s lesbian textual community, pulp novels belonging to the ‘Golden Age of Paperbacks’ were more than cheaply produced reading materials.
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Padfield, 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.
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Reed, 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.
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This thesis examines the portrayal of Jewish lesbians in American literature since 1979. As well as a study of Jewish lesbian identity, the thesis examines how Jewish identity exists in literature separate from lesbian identity, and vice versa. In this representative sample of texts from the period, several kinds of text are used (fiction, non-fiction, magazine articles and television) to draw conclusions about how Jewish lesbians see themselves, and how they are seen by others. Above all, the complexities and crises in this complex identity will be drawn out and discussed with specific reference to how the identity exists, is permitted to exist, or cannot exist within literature, and by extension, within individuals. These crises often occur around the combination of Jewish and lesbian identities: the acceptance of lesbians within a religion which traditionally forbids same-sex relations, adherence to a religion that is considered by many lesbians and feminists to be patriarchal, and overcoming the paradox of secular Judaism as a comfortable middle-ground from which one can be both Jewish and lesbian. The changes in identity that occur as a result of passing time will also be noted, and how far changing attitudes in America as a whole towards both ethnic and sexual diversity have an effect on personal identity will be another theme of this thesis. Works by Adrienne Rich (1986), Irena Klepfisz (1990), Evelyn Torton Beck (1982), Ruth Geller (1984), Leslea Newman (1988), Elana Dykewomon (2009) and Sarah Schulman (2009) will be studied, as well as the popular Lilitb magazine (1985-1995) and network television shows Friends (1994-2004) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), demonstrating how far this very specific but highly pervasive identity is part of popular culture as well as the Jewish lesbian community.
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Lowery, 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.
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How much are we aged by biology, and how much by culture? Age criticism is a relatively new discipline – the word ‘ageism’ was only coined in 1968 by sociologist Robert Butler – but it has been asking this question since its inception. Feminists were among the first to investigate the idea of ‘age identity,’ and during the 1980s a handful of American older lesbian feminists took the women’s movement to task about its own ageism. Writers like Baba Copper and Barbara MacDonald argued that age is not only a state of mind but a political construction, anticipating much that has now become mainstream in the thinking of age identity. Since then, there has been a growing recognition that ‘age ideology,’ from birthday cards to employment law, delivers negative messages about ageing as decline, deterioration and loss. But there are still not enough representations of older people – and especially older women – which offer a positive paradigm for ageing, one that goes beyond platitudes of acceptance, or, more insidiously, the chimera of retaining ‘youth’ in old age. My thesis traces the early work of lesbian and feminist writers as they explored the subjectivity of older women at a time when this was still rare. I argue that this writing still has much to offer in challenging conventional and negative ideas of agerelated changes, without sentimentalising or denying physical, as well as social, pain. I begin by setting out an overview of the theory that has accompanied this writing, including Copper and MacDonald’s work. In particular, I explore its expansion in Margaret Gullette’s theory of diachronic identity, in which the fluid character of identity means that many ages can exist simultaneously, and Kathleen Woodward’s notion of a ‘mirror stage’ in midand older life. Such concepts provide guiding tools for my subsequent analysis of lesbian age writing. The thesis goes on to examine novels, life writing and poetry by older lesbians, organising the material thematically: chapters deal with menopause, memory and forgetting, sexuality and mortality respectively. The conclusion hinges on lesbian age theory as an aspect of feminist and gender research based at the interface of queer and age identities. Minority writing on oldness has a particular usefulness in delineating the specificities of difference, or what critic Margaret Cruikshank has called ‘the “inbetween worlds” within aging.’ Work by older lesbians can be seen as a tool for both understanding and shaping the experience of old age. This very particular literature, through its emphasis on continuity, friendship and community, refuses prescribed ‘life stages’ and instead offers paradigms for conscious and comfortable ageing.
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Moore, 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.
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Stewart, 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.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4721. Adviser: Claudia Breger. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 22, 2008).
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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.
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Peisach, 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.
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Murphy, 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/.
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In existing scholarship of twentieth-century British lesbian history the post-war period has been largely overlooked. Whereas the interwar period and the 1970s and 1980s have garnered much critical interest as crucial loci of lesbian identity formation, the post-war period has been obscured between the two. What work does exist has focused almost exclusively on the creation of lesbian public spaces and lesbian communities. This has been to the exclusion of research into lesbian home and private life, and has also served to obscure experiences of closeted or isolated women. The critical focus on the interwar period in particular has also been facilitated and corroborated by lesbian literary studies, which has used the modernist movement as the backbone for the creation of a lesbian literary canon. This has been to the obscuration of lesbian literature of the post-war period. Furthermore, this academic bias has overlooked the significance of the cultural value of such literature by failing to acknowledge or investigate what lesbians in post-war Britain were actually reading. This thesis positions itself at the intersection of these research gaps. Employing an interdisciplinary approach this project argues for the greater inclusion of post-war literature and post-war lesbian lives in scholarly investigation. Through close textual analysis of a range of post-war lesbian literature and oral history interviews conducted by the author, this thesis presents insights into the minutiae of lesbian life and into the roots of lesbian identity formation within this period. To situate itself within existing historiography this thesis takes as its starting point the lesbian magazine, Arena Three (1964-71), undertaking an analysis of the magazine’s book review column in order to build a picture of the post-war lesbian reader. Following on from this, close textual analyses of lesbian pulp fiction and original oral history transcripts are used to assess representations of domesticity. Specifically the concepts of hetero-domesticity and homo-domesticity are developed and employed to investigate lesbian identities as they existed within both heterosexual and same-sex relationships. Graham Dawson’s oral history theory of ‘composure’ is used to examine how lesbian narrators are successful or unsuccessful in incorporating experiences of hetero-domesticity into wider lesbian narratives. This framework is similarly employed to investigate the ways in which homo-domestic experiences can assist lesbian narrators to achieve composure. Lastly oral history reminiscences of reading in the post-war period are analysed in order to assess the role that literature played, both in lesbian identity formation and in facilitating narrators’ journeys into wider lesbian social worlds.
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McGee, 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.
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Wilkerson, 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.
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The majority of this thesis consists of my creative work in poetry, accompanied by researched information and concepts that serve to contextualize and illuminate the poems themselves and my creative process. Key areas of scholarship that underlie my poetry include the tropes and motifs of Gothic literature from the Romantic era to the present; the progression of women’s writing, particularly writing by women identifying as lesbian; and the conflation of female writers and characters with the concept of the ‘monstrous’ and transgressive. Also informing the two research chapters are some of the basic concepts about abjection and depression developed by philosopher and theorist Julia Kristeva. The collection of my poems contains both narrative and lyric poems. The final chapter, following on from my collection of sixty-eight poems, outlines my creative progress as I developed my particular poetic aesthetic. It is heavily informed by my growing acquaintance and comfort level with my own darkness and depression reflected in Gothic tropes, lesbian fiction, and aspects of Kristevan theory. The progression of my craft as a writer led me to strive for an effective expressive balance between the abstractions of the French Symbolists and Surrealists and a more ‘Imagistic’ focus on accurate, concrete imagery.
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Andermahr, Sonya. "Difference, identification and desire : contemporary lesbian genre fiction". Thesis, University of Warwick, 1993. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/39002/.
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The focus of this dissertation entitled 'Difference, Identification & Desire: Contemporary Lesbian Genre Fiction' is the representation of lesbian identity in four contemporary popular lesbian genres: autobiographical fiction, speculative fiction, romance fiction and crime fiction. The aim of the dissertation is three-fold. Firstly, it seeks to acknowledge and celebrate the large variety of representations of lesbianism produced by lesbian writers working with popular forms of the novel during the past twenty five years. Secondly, it explores the ways in which lesbian writers have reworked popular genres in order to highlight lesbian and feminist concerns and to depict aspects of lesbian existence. It analyzes the effects of introducing discourses of lesbianism into the plots of popular genres, showing how the latter have been subverted or adapted by lesbian use. Thirdly, the thesis seeks to specify the ways in which the generic forms themselves, according to their own codes and conventions, shape and mediate the representation of lesbian identity in the text. In addition to this focus, the dissertation traces a number of themes and concerns across and within the four genres under discussion. These include the relationship in the texts between the sign 'lesbian' and the discourse of feminism, and the oscillation between the representation of lesbian sexual identity in terms of woman-identification and difference-between women. The aim throughout the analysis of contemporary lesbian genre fiction is to identify both that which is specific to lesbian representation and that which is characteristic of the particular genre under discussion. The dissertation represents a contribution to three areas of literary study: Genre Studies and Feminist Studies in general, and to Lesbian Studies in particular.
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Jones, 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.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title 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.
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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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Mujeres de papel examines the representation of female same-sex desire in Spanish literature and culture between 1868 and 1936, drawing on novels, popular sex manuals, sexological treatises, postcards, and illustrations. While scholars have productively attended to Post-Francoist literary and cinematographic expressions of non-normative sexualities, my dissertation sheds new light on its rich yet discontinuous prehistories. I argue that the figure of the “lesbian” is a convergence point for the ideas, beliefs and anxieties of Spanish modernity. From the will to know and categorize to erotic fantasies, the “lesbian” constitutes a pervasive yet unstable trope, which resists and at the same time motivates its definition and control. Chapter one analyzes Francisco de Sales Mayo’s 1869 La Condesita (Memorias de una doncella), a work halfway between a private diary, an erotic novel, and a medical treatise, which features a provocative case of female homosexuality. The next two chapters grapple with literary, (pseudo)scientific, and visual artifacts of the so-called “sicalipsis,” or erotic wave that inundated Spanish culture between the late 19th century and the 1930s. Works studied in these sections include novels by Rafael Cansinos-Assens, Álvaro Retana, Artemio Precioso, and Felipe Trigo, popular sex manuals by Vicente Suárez Casañ and Ángel Martín de Lucenay, and visual erotica. Chapter four turns to the fiction of Feminist writer Carmen de Burgos in conjunction with the theories on “intersexuality” formulated by Gregorio Marañon, Spain’s most renowned scientist and public intellectual of the 1920s.Romance Languages and Literatures
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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/.
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A literatura, instrumento de representação e questionamento dos comportamentos sociais, tanto pode induzir a discussão de papéis de gênero e sociais, como sugerir a adoção de ideias e condutas. A representação da afetividade de personagens lésbicas, em sua relativamente recente e modesta emergência na história da literatura, recebe o peso das delimitações femininas em face de um cânone falogocêntrico. As características comportamentais impostas às subjetividades das mulheres, de tão largamente utilizadas, são naturalizadas nos e pelos discursos da cultura ocidental, tornando-se assim uma espécie de manual de regulação da performance amorosa. Tal normatização incide inclusive na representação de casais homoafetivos, o que muitas vezes reforça estereótipos num viés hierarquizante e heteronormativo de diferenciação e valoração sexista. Assim, o objetivo do presente trabalho é, por meio da Crítica Literária Feminista e dos Estudos de Gênero, sobretudo com base nas obras de Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Adrienne Rich e Monique Wittig, estabelecer a comparação entre as personagens das obras O Corpo, de Clarice Lispector (1974), Eu sou uma Lésbica, de Cassandra Rios (1982) e Azul é a Cor mais Quente, de Julie Maroh (2013), para analisar a representação da afetividade lésbica e a incidência da heteronormatividade nestas personagens em ascensão na literatura das últimas décadas do século XX e início do século XXI. Para isso se faz necessário considerar as diferenças entre os três gêneros literários do corpus (conto, romance e novela gráfica) e seus respectivos suportes que apontam para uma popularização deste tipo de protagonismo, bem como sua recepção pela crítica e pelo público.The 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.
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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.
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Dans Le Corps lesbien, Monique Wittig tente de degager le personnage de la lesbienne de la penombre textuelle dans laquelle il est progressivement entre apres les vers de Sappho, c'est-a-dire au fur et a mesure que se consolide, en Grece, la culture des envahisseurs patriarcaux (les Acheens et les Doriens) et que la religion chretienne point dans le bassin mediterraneen. L'auteure opere la "resurrection" parodique de cette figure avalee par l'histoire de la litterature occidentale, en s'appropriant les deux mythes charnieres de la mythologie biblique et paienne, soit celui de l'Eucharistie (tel qu'il est presente dans le Nouveau Testament), et celui de la metamorphose des chasseresses, ou compagnes d'Artemis, en proies (tel qu'il apparai t dans Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide). Wittig realise l'absorption et la transformation de ces deux hypotextes, ou intertextes de base, en les emmelant a des recits mythiques de la devoration ou de la metamorphose qui leur sont anterieurs, tels ceux du cannibale Thyeste, de l'avalement de Jonas par le "poisson" biblique ou du changement de dieux et de mortels en animaux, plantes ou elements. De la sorte, elle demystifie et recompose ces mythes en montrant et exploitant leur processus de creation. Dans un premier temps, cette etude se penche sur la deconstruction du mythe de l'Eucharistie par le biais du grand procede intertextuel de l'oeuvre, celui du "va-et-vient". Par la constante evocation du mythe de la Communion eucharistique a travers ceux des celebrations paiennes, ce procede met en relief le motif central de l'oeuvre qui est une "passion-consommation" amoureuse plutot que sacrificielle. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Setzer, 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.
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Graham, 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.
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Wood, Meredith Abner. "Breaking the Formula: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Fiction". W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625560.
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Waters, 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.
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Mercado, 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.
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The present thesis deals with the intended abandonment of traditional notions of Romantic love in some manifestations of Western literature. The novel analyzed is José Luis Sampedro’s El Amante Lesbiano, where concepts such as gender roles, marriage, and sexuality have been removed from their conventionalities in favour of love. The thesis provides two points of analysis concerning El Amante Lesbiano. One, the use of little narratives that deconstruct gender and the Romantic notions of love; the second, an analysis on Sampedro’s strategies to demythify Romantic love, namely the modulation of typical mythical images depicting romance. Such analysis answers to the raised research questions by this thesis: why are little narratives used by Sampedro to deconstruct gender and Romantic Love? And what results from the demythification of such notion in El Amante Lesbiano?
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Zimmerman, 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.
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Parker, 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/.
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This thesis addresses the concept of the contemporary muse in the work of six late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century women poets. In my introduction, I detail the history of the muse in literary tradition. I examine the problems that the gendered dynamic of poet/muse presented, by restricting women to a passive, inspiring role. I argue that, due to these problematic aspects, contemporary feminist criticism of the woman poet’s muse has often elided the homoerotic desire and power-play that structures these relationships. To rectify this, I focus on contemporary, living muse figures. I emphasise why these kinds of figures (as opposed to dead, historical or mythological muses) were particularly inspiring to women poets in the late-nineteenth/early-twentieth centuries. I also address the specific ethical dilemmas of claiming a living muse. My four main chapters detail and theorise the dynamics between poets and their contemporary muses: Michael Field and Bernard Berenson; Olive Custance and Lord Alfred Douglas; Amy Lowell and Eleonora Duse/Ada Russell; and H.D. and Bryher. My conclusion draws these individual studies together to emphasise their illuminating similarities, including the increased fluidity between the roles of poet/muse, destabilisation of gender categories, and the presence of a third term that mediates the muse/poet relationship.
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Rogers, 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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This thesis examines Elizabeth Bishop's seemingly understated and yet nuanced poetry with a specific focus on loss, love, and language through domesticity to create a poetic home. In this sense, home offers security for a displaced orphan and lesbian, moving from filial to amorous love, as well as the literary home for a poet who struggled for critical recognition. Further, juxtaposing the familiar with the strange, Bishop situates her speaker in a construction of artificial and natural boundaries that break down across her topography and represent loss through the multiple female figures that permeate her poems to convey the uncertainty one experiences with homelessness. In order to establish home, Bishop sets her female relationships on a continuum as mother, aunt, grandmother, and lovers are equitably represented with similar tropes. In essence, what draws these women together remains their collective and familiar duty as potential caretaker, which is contrasted by their unusual absence in the respective poems that figure them. Contrary to the opinion most scholars hold, Bishop's reticence was a calculated device that progressed her speaker(s) toward moments of self discovery. In an attempt to uncover her voice, her place in the literary movements, and her very identity, critics narrowly define Bishop's vision by fracturing her identity and positing reductive readings of her work. By choosing multiple dichotomies that begin with a marginalized speaker and the centered women on her continuum, the paradox of Bishop's poetry eludes some readers as they try to queer her or simply reduce her to impersonal and reticent, while a holistic approach is needed to uncover the genesis of Bishop's poetic progression. To be sure, Bishop's women conflate into the collective image of loss, absence, and abandonment on Bishop's homosocial continuum as a way to achieve catharsis. Bishop's concern with unconditional love, coupled with the continual threat of abandonment she contends with coursing through her work, gives credence to the homosocial continuum that is driven by loss and love with the perpetual need to create a language to house Bishop from the painful memories of rejection. Bishop situates her speaker(s) in the margins, since it is at the center when the pain of loss is brought into light, to allow her fluid selves release from the prison loss creates. By reading her work through the lenses of orphan, lesbian, and female poet, the progression of her homosocial continuum, as I envision it, is revealed. It is through this continuum that Bishop comes to terms with loss and abandonment, while creating a speaking subject that grows with each poem. Without her continuum of powerful female relationships, Bishop's progression as a poet would be far less revealing. Indeed, defining herself through negation, Bishop's sense of homelessness is uncovered in juxtaposition to her centered female subjects, and I delve into these contestations of space/place as well as her figurations of home/ homelessness to discern Bishop's poetic craft as she channeled the painful details of her past, thus creating her "one art."M.A.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
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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.
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Las literaturas de las diversidades sexuales, es decir, aquellas que articulan subjetividades GLBTTIQ (Gay, Lésbico, Bisexual, Transexual, Transgénero, Intersexual y Queer) han sido poco abordadas en la zona de los Andes por varias razones. En esta tesis busco plantear la existencia de ciertas características genealógicas que moldean los discursos en torno a la construcción de estas sexualidades y que se evidencian en varios documentos literarios contemporáneos, a la par que intento descubrir algunas de las razones por las cuales las literaturas andinas no han abordado dichas lecturas.
Para ello, y gracias a la interdisciplinariedad de la teoría literaria y la literatura comparada, planteo un esquema que intenta mezclar el concepto jurídico del ordenamiento con la crítica humanística en torno al cuerpo. Todo ello presentado como un ejercicio genealógico que se justifica en un modelo de aplicación que posibilite la explicación desde la literatura y el derecho del concepto de transgresión. A la par, y para contextualizar este modelo, hago una revisión a los principios básicos que articulan a la zona andina de manera discursiva y que permiten configurar un ordenamiento particular con distintas subjetividades que actúan dentro y fuera del texto literario para conformar un panorama de estas literaturas de los Andes.
La parte práctica de mi tesis plantea tres casos que aplican el esquema teórico en tres autores que trabajan las temáticas identitarias de las diversidades sexuales: Pablo Palacio, Julieta Paredes y Fernando Vallejo. Dichos casos, además, permiten articular cuáles son las problemáticas que se encuentran en el polisistema cultural de la zona a través del análisis narrativo y poético. Este acercamiento busca proponer postulados que reactualicen la noción de literaturas andinas pero que puedan desviar la lectura en la búsqueda de un contracanon literario andino basado en lecturas poscoloniales y de género. A partir de los principios de literatura heterogénea y contradictoria de Cornejo Polar intentaré hablar sobre la riqueza de los modos de representación de la zona, la coexistencia de cuerpos y subjetividades y las problemáticas que diferencian a la escritura andina pero buscando proponer un esbozo de contracanon y una nueva lectura política de las sexualidades de esta región.The 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.
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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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The aim of this thesis is to study representations of identity and (in)visibility in Swedish lesbian novels written in the 1930s, and to provide a summary of Swedish lesbian literature up to the early 21st century. This study has been done through a close reading primarily of Charlie by Margareta Suber (1932), Fröknarna von Pahlen by Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1930–1935) and Kris by Karin Boye (1934). Lesbian literature is discussed as a loose category, a construction which can be used as an analytical tool in a conscious and reflexive way, with its basis in the categories of author, text and reader. In short, I define lesbian literature as novels written by women, about lesbian figures and/or relationships, and for lesbian readers in the sense that the literature depicts lesbians from an insider’s perspective. As regards the period before 1930, the focus is on romantic friendship and the excitement zone when the romantic friendship becomes a sexual one, as seen in the fictitious case of Sin fars dotter (1920) by Lydia Wahlström. Sexological theories, the image of “the new woman” and changes to the law all colour the first half of the 20th century. This is seen in Charlie by Margareta Suber, where the author makes use of many such explanations in her creation of a lesbian figure. A reading of Fröknarna von Pahlen by Agnes von Krusenstjerna shows an intricate pattern of relationships at its heart. My analysis charts several same-sex couples, a lesbian single woman and two collectives; that is to say, the female collective and the male homosexual collective. The relationships between women are many-faceted and include everything from romantic friendship, kinship and sensualism to eroticism and shared parenthood. In my analysis of Kris by Karin Boye, I focus on Malin, the main character, and the development of her sense of identity, in which the struggle between the language of the world around her and her own emotional experience of love for a woman is a central theme. After the 1930s, the historical context changed in terms of everything from decriminalisation in 1944 via the homophobic panic of the 1950s to the impact of queer theory in the 1990s. Swedish lesbian literature addresses everything from crime of passion (murder) to the coming out process of young women. There exists in all novels from the 1930s an interplay that is (in)visible: the characters or lesbian relationships depicted are both visible and invisible at the same time. The characters are more or less aware of the potential risks attached to being visible as a lesbian, and often they do not notice themselves when this occurs. During the course of the 20th century, (in)visibility becomes replaced by openness and secrecy, and the visibility of the lesbian characters is politicised.The abstract is translated by Janet French.
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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.
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Gillingham, 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.
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This thesis examines the narrative constructions of same-sex relationships between female characters in lesbian love stories published for a young adult audience in the United States in English from 1976 to 2016. The thesis argues that there has been a significant shift in the portrayals of lesbian and female bisexual characters, and their same-sex relationships, during this period, as well as a dramatic increase in the diversity of these stories for a young adult audience. The interrogation of narrative and characterisation takes into consideration the ways these lesbian love stories participate in and are shaped by genre, discussing generic conventions from romance, fantasy, science fiction, and memoir and, to a lesser extent, magical realism and historical fiction. The investigation also privileges the idea of love, in its multitude of forms, as the central theme of the selected novels, and for the research project as a whole. Through the examination of the research corpus, the thesis, first, proposes three key narratives elements—the revelation (coming out), the first kiss, and the resolution—that serve a particular function in the representations of these characters and their romantic relationships in YA novels and graphic memoirs. The analysis then includes case studies on the work of two prominent authors of lesbian and bisexual young adult novels, Julie Anne Peters and Malinda Lo, in respective chapters. The thesis will next explore philosophically motivated fiction on the theme of love. Finally, a study of graphic memoirs will consider genre in the portrayals of lesbian love stories in the comics form. Overall, the thesis illustrates a spectrum of storytelling—from the conventional romance narrative to novels that are deeply invested in the depiction of love, in all its forms—through the depictions of same-sex relationships between female characters for a young adult audience.
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Malek, 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.
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Säfwenberg, 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.
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The 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.
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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.
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Jerome, 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/.
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This thesis examines Malay identity construction by focusing on the complex processes of self-identification among queer-identified Malays living in Malaysia and beyond. By analysing representations of queer Malays in the works of contemporary Malaysian Malay writers, scholars, and filmmakers, as well as queer Malays on the internet and in the diaspora, the thesis demonstrates how self-identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Malays create and express their identities, and the ways in which hegemonic Malay culture, religion, and the state affect their creation and expression. This is especially true when queer-identified Malays are officially conflated with being “un-Malay” and “un-Islamic” because queer sexualities contravene Malay cultural and religious values. This thesis begins by discussing the politics of Malay identity, particularly the tension between “authority-defined” and “everyday-defined” notions of being Malay that opens up a space for queer-identified Malays to formulate narratives of Malayness marked by sexual difference. The thesis then discusses how queer-identified Malays specifically construct their identities via various strategies, including strategic renegotiations of ethnicity, religiosity, and queer sexuality, and selective reappropriations of local and western forms of queerness. The ways in which “gay Melayu” identity is a hybrid cultural construction, produced through transnational and transcultural interactions between local and western forms of gayness under current conditions of globalization is also examined, as well as the material articulation of queer narratives of Malayness and its diverse implications on queer-identified Malays' everyday lives and sense of belonging. The thesis concludes with a critical reflection on the possibilities and limitations of queerness in the context of queer Malay identity creation. Such reflection is crucial in thinking about the future directions for research on queerness and the politics of queer Malay identity. It is hoped that this study will show that queer-identified Malays reshape and transform received ideas about “Malayness” and “queerness” through their own invention of new and more nuanced ways of being “queer” and “Malay.” This study also fills up the lacunae in the scholarship on Malay identity and queer Malays by addressing the productions of Malay ethnicity and sexual identity among queer-identified Malays within and beyond Malaysia's borders.
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Móntez, 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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Representations of Chicana bodies in dominant popular culture have historically been contested by Chicana feminists’ own self-representations through art and literature. However, few works examine representations of fat Chicana bodies in literature by Chicana feminists. Through a literary analysis of The Panza Monologues and Real Women Have Curves, as well as an artistic analysis of Laura Aguilar’s photography and through the lenses of Chicanx, queer, and fat studies, my research bridges a gap between Chicana feminist work and fat studies. It looks at how fatness is constructed through the self-representation of women’s bodies. Ultimately, I argue that these art objects are sites of fat Chicana artivism—activism through the use of art—that call for body liberation, respond to the “normative body” required by a colonial legacy of symbolic and physical violence against Chicanx women, and pave the way for further creative artistic and literary work centered on fat Chicanxs to be done.