Beyond sex and romance? : the politics of contemporary lesbian fiction - Hutton, Elaine (London : Women's Press, 1998)
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Lesbians in literature; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism