This study characterizes lesbianism as a central motif in the Western imagination, despite the frequency with which the reality of lesbian sexuality has been oppressed. In a range of essays, the author explores the emergence of lesbian sensibility in literature and culture.
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This study characterizes lesbianism as a central motif in the Western imagination, despite the frequency with which the reality of lesbian sexuality has been oppressed. In a range of essays, the author explores the emergence of lesbian sensibility in literature and culture.
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Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 0231076525. There's a light stain on the lower part of the dust jacket, barely affecting the book. There are a couple of marginal notes.; SIGNED and inscribed by the author to fellow author Kim Chernin.; Culture & Gender; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.1 inches; 307 pages; Signed by Author.
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In a series of essays, Terry Castle, Stanford University Professor of English, considers the phenomenon of the "now you see her, now you don't" lesbian presence in Western literature and culture from the eighteenth century into the twentieth. She includes an essay on The Diaries of Anne Lister, an eighteenth-century woman of means who wrote explicitly about her many affairs with women and examines several people's obsession with Marie Antoinette (often believed to have been lesbian or bisexual). It must be said, however, that Castle's text is not for the faint-hearted; her arguments probe the issues densely and sometimes stretch credibility. I believe she does make her case convincingly: the lesbian, seldom openly acknowledged, often, it seems, retreated from in fear but still, somehow, present, is a haunting figure in Western culture.
