Impossible Women

by Valerie Rohy

Book Overview

Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Reading through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Valerie Rohy considers texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and Elizabeth Bishop.Addressing American ideologies of reproduction and representation, Impossible Women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486386
• ISBN13: 9780801486388
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"