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Lesbian and/or Feminist Literature and Writing
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Lumière on May 12, 2009, 05:10:53 pm ---Amanda, your post came in same time as mine.
Motion carried unanimously - Tipping the Velvet is the best start. ;)
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8) Yeah, I think so. It contains a good mixture of serious topics and fun. And, it really does seem to be the novel by
Waters that focuses the most intently on the subject of being a lesbian... in addition to simply having lesbian characters present in a given narrative.
sel:
--- Quote from: Lumière on May 12, 2009, 05:10:53 pm ---Amanda, your post came in same time as mine.
Motion carried unanimously - Tipping the Velvet is the best start. ;)
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Well girls, Tipping the Velvet then will be! :D
My town library has an excellent selection of books in English, I will check there first, if it is not there I will either get it in London, all being well I planning to go there at the beginning of summer, or will order it through Amazon. I wouldn't want to read in Italian unless I found the English rather difficult. Funnily enough the one author who I find no easy at all to read in English is Annie Proulx, ended up reading the Shipping News in Italian.
Amanda,
I will watch Aimée and Jaguar again as it has been a while since I watched it, and will get back to you with a list of questions.
Lumière:
Okay, time to revive this thread.
Amanda, you with me on this? ;)
Lumière:
I recently ordered the following books, which I think are relevant to the subject of this thread...
Two Friends And Other 19th Century Lesbian Stories By American Women
by Susan Koppelman
[Amazon.com]
From Library Journal
This collection describes romantic attachments between women. The subject would not be extraordinary had the stories not been written in the late 19th century by some of the most respected American authors, including Mary Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Sarah Orne Jewett. Lesbian love was not a conventional theme of 19th-century American literature and had to be muted in these stories. Thus, Phelps writes about a woman torn between being fulfilled in the spiritual realm after she leaves her body and being separated from her one true love, the woman mourning beside her casket, in "Since I Died." Writer/historian Koppelman (May Your Days Be Merry and Bright, NAL/Dial, 1991) carefully documents the professional and personal lives of these authors to put their work in literary and historical perspective. Most important, she decodes elements and symbols in the stories that were popular in the 19th century but might be unfamiliar to contemporary readers. This exceedingly important contribution to the study of women's history and lesbian literature in America is highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.
Lisa Nussbaum, Euclid P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Lumière:
A Century of Lesbian Erotica
by Susie Bright [et al.] , Susie Bright
[Chapters.ca]
Follow the development of lesbian erotic writing through the past hyperactive 100 years and have fun while you`re at it with this anthology. During the last century gay men and women have gained acceptance, freedom and rights on many different levels. At the same time erotic art in the gay community has flourished. With some of the fears of persecution off their shoulders, authors such as Susie Bright, Lizbeth Dusseau and Alison Tyler have felt free to openly explore their sexuality. The result is a collection of sensual, loving stories in A Century of Lesbian Erotica.
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