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...Kirstie Blair Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 41 Gypsies and Lesbian Desire: Vita Sackville-West,Violet Trefusis, and Virginia Woolf Kirstie Blair Long Barn, Knole, Richmond and Bloomsbury. All too familiar and entrapping. Either I am at home, and you are strange...

...; a defiant fifties butch; and an avatar of “what we now call a transsexual identity” (Halberstam 85). Most recently, Hal- berstam and Jay Prosser have argued persuasively for readings of Stephen Gordon’s “inversion” as an example not of lesbianism but of “female masculinity” (Halberstam...

... Will Not Serve (1960) and Olivia’s [Dorothy Strachey Bussy’s] Olivia (1949). In each of these works, queer sexuality operates as both the figure and ground through which social relations are experienced. Importantly, the 1950s to the 1960s—before the Stonewall Riots and the gay and lesbian liberation...

... inversion took the form of the mannish lesbian. Although that persona did not suggest sexual deviance to the wider public until after the 1928 obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, it was recognizable to groups of the cognoscenti before the trial, as attested...

... or criminals” (304). Barnes’s so-called criminal friends were the gays and lesbians who were part of her social milieu in Greenwich Village in the 1910s, where she resided before relocating in 1920 to a similar community of American expatriate sexual dissidents on Paris’s Left Bank, whose lives she...

... come to the fore. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 Critics like Julian Carter (2005 : 108) have fleshed out the challenges of categorizing the erotic subjectivity of those “not easily recognizable as ‘lesbians.’” Calling for “alternative frameworks...

... certainly do the same. Furthermore, if Diana Trilling and other midcentury critics chose to discuss Capote’s sexuality, it is certainly appropriate to examine how. A secondary aim of this article is to question the current standing of Capote in current literary, gay, lesbian, and queer studies...

... in for the children lesbian couples cannot have and paintings portraying ancestors who never existed. In a peculiarly vivid displacement, the word Desdemona tattooed on a black circus performer’s penis spells out for all to see the sexual threat that the Twentieth-Century Literature 52.4 Winter...

... summarizes the laws passed during this period giving married women “some degree of control over their own lives” (15), while Sheila Jeffreys and others examine how sexologists and psychologists simultaneously pathologized single women, who were also closely associated with the figure of the lesbian...

... accommodated by none of the available specifications. Not exactly that of a tomboy, butch lesbian, or trans man in a predominantly Euro-American sex/gender/sexuality system, Otoh’s trans embodiment is one of his own. Tyler’s and Otoh’s nongenital trans modification points to how gender embodiment can take...

...; David is a writer distracted by his wife’s exploration of masculinity, racialized fantasy, and lesbianism.2 Early in the narrative, Catherine surprises her husband with a haircut “cropped as short as a boy’s” (14) explaining “I’m a girl, But now I’m a boy too” (15). That night she goes...

... and lesbian studies and to studies of the modernist period, and it demonstrates how social network theory can be useful to develop ties among authors and artists who have yet to be documented by the critical establishment. The case of the British writer Radclyffe Hall and her lover Una...

... the table while apparently listening to papers at an academic conference. This interwoven autobiographical and critical account leads us through questions of cross-gender identification, the potentially differ­ ing desires and experiences of lesbian and black female readers...

... or 308 Sophie’s Choice twice” with her lesbian friend Wanda, despite the fact that “it didn’t mean much to either of them” (580). So it is not brute intimidation or even lesbian desire that compels Sophie to tolerate women’s sexual advances; it would seem rather to be a general indifference...

... shaped much of how writers at the turn of the century and well into the twentieth century conceived of sexuality and identity. I use queer in a broad rather than specific sense. Bishop lived a lesbian life, though she was not “out.” Moore is difficult to pin down, but as Linda Leavell argues...

.... If we expect the lesbian potentiality between Bertha and Pearl to suggest an alternative to the logic of possession, Mansfield suggests otherwise. Bertha’s reflections on Pearl suggest that the ambiguous class difference between them renders Pearl another of Bertha’s possessions: “Bertha smiled...

... a set of ideas about lesbian subjectivity.” She reads “The Map,” he tells us, as a work of  “covert lesbian erotica, characterizing its account of “‘intimacy without a phallus’” as “an intimacy of shared and exchanged subject positions.” Pickard writes, “Regardless of its applica- bility...

... cultures in which homosexuality has found accidental allies. Wilde’s unlikely utility for Irish nationalism calls to mind the way main- stream American consumer culture in the 1990s found an unlikely hero in gay-male spending power. As Alexandra Chasin argues in Selling Out: the Gay and Lesbian...

... significantly in the study, only Mary Shelley and Rebecca West, discussed on fewer than a dozen pages. In Barnes, Sherry concentrates on the Doctor, who is a male crossdresser tied closely to Wilde, without mentioning the female late Modernist decadence of the lesbian characters, who pose a challenge to queer...

... to the feminist advocacy of “women-promoting-the-needs-of-women,” which has led to the feminist slogans “we are all lesbians” and “feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.”4 These slogans blend the need for female solidarity in material matters into sexual solidarity, insisting that to love...