Sororophobia : differences among women in literature and culture /
This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country music...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | OUP E-Books.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country music. Sororophobia designates the complex and shifting relations between women's attempts to identify with other women and their often simultaneous desire to establish and retain difference. Michie argues for the centrality to feminism of a paradigm that moves beyond celebrations of identity and sisterh. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423737601 9781423737605 1601298706 9781601298706 9780195073874 0195073878 1280441496 9781280441493 9786610441495 6610441499 9780199855223 0199855226 |