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Beyond sex and romance? : the politics of contemporary lesbian fiction / Politics of contemporary lesbian fiction Elain Hutton, editor. - London : Women's Press, 1998. - 215 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- The education of May Sarton : love between women in four novels by May Sarton / Lis Whitelaw -- The state of the heart : ideology and narrative structure in the novels of Maureen Duffy and Caeia March / Anira Rowanchild -- Woebegone dykes : the novels of Lisa Alther / Vada Hart -- Lesbian writers in the mainstream : Sara Maitland, Jeanette Winterson and Emma Donoghue / Rachel Wingfield -- Lindsay Gordon meets Kate Brannigan : mainstreaming or malestreaming : representations of women crime fighters / Jill Radford -- Blackening my characters : race and characterisation in lesbian fiction / Anita Naoko Pilgrim -- Beyond sex and romance? Lesbian relationships in contemporary fiction / Lynne Horne -- Zero tolerance in wonderland : some political uses of imagination / Elaine Miller -- Good lesbians, bad men, and happy endings / Elaine Hutton.

ISBN: 0704345374 0704345374 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Homosexuality and literature--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Homosexuality and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Lesbians in literature.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PR888.L46 / B49 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.910935206643 823/.910935206643