Are Girls Necessary: Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Are Girls Necessary: Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories
By (Author) Julie Abraham
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
3rd December 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
810.99206643
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm
Description
In this analysis of 20th century lesbian writing, Julie Abraham offers new readings of pulp novelists alongside high modernists - authors as various as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Mary Renault, and Virginia Woolf - to examine how these writers created new lesbian narratives.
Reviews
"Julie Abraham's "Are Girls Necessary focuses insightfully... and, through fresh and often innovative readings of several authors, she offers a new understanding of what it means to be a lesbian writer."
-"Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1998
"Anyone with a poignant interest in lesbian writing--its history and ramifications in the literary world--will welcome the challenge presented in Abraham's studies."
-"Lambda Book Report
