Damned women : lesbians in French novels, 1796-1996 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Waelti-Walters, Jennifer R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
Subjects:	Lesbians in literature. French fiction > History and criticism. Lesbians' writings, French > History and criticism. French fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
A note on translations and sources
Introduction
Pt. 1. The male gaze, 1796-1929. 1. Damned women: the prototypes ; 2. Contrasting attitudes: male and female writers
Pt. 2. Through women's eyes, 1929-1968. 3. Constrained desires ; 4. Contrasting generations: Leduc and Beauvoir, Wittig and Cixous
Pt. 3. Specifically French lesbians, 1968-1996. 5. Exporing lesbian identity ; 6. Contrasting perspectives: François, Best, and Monferrand
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix: French quotations
Bibliography. A. French lesbian novels ; B. Works cited and general works on lesbianism in France ; C. Sources of French medical attitudes to lesbianism, 1870-1960 ; D. Bibliographies of lesbian fiction
Index.