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Making girls into women
| Subtitle | American women's writing and the rise of lesbian identity |
| Publish Place | Durham |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Publish Year | 2003 |
| Pages | XI, 355p. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 0822330164 |
| Language | English/Engels |
- Shelfmark
- B4471 - B
| Description | 'Making girls into women' offers an account of the historical emergence of 'the lesbian' by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white, middle-class women's culture. Kent demonstrates how, as white women's culture shifted more and more from the home to the school, workplace, and boardinghouse, the boundaries between the public and private spheres began to dissolve. She not only analyses how texts present queer erotics, but also theorizes how texts might produce them in readers. She describes the ways postbellum sentimental literature such as that written by H. Beecher Stowe, L.M. Alcott and E.D. Kelley eroticises, reacts against, and even, in its own efforts to shape girls' selves, contributes to the production of queer female identifications and identities. Further on she considers works by Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop, as well as the queer subject-forming effects of another modern invention, the Girl Scouts. |
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