American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity
by
Kathryn R. Kent, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
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. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology...