Are Girls Necessary?: Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories

By Julie Abraham

Book Overview

In this analysis of twentieth-century lesbian writing, Julie Abraham offers new readings of pulp novelists alongside high modernist-authors as various as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Mary Renault, and Virginia Woolf-to examine how these writers created new lesbian narratives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816656762
• ISBN13: 9780816656769
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"