Making Girls into Women : American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. “SINGLE WHITE FEMALE”: THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF SPINSTERHOOD IN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE’S OLDTOWN FOLKS -- 2. “TRYING ALL KINDS”: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S PEDAGOGIC EROTICS -- 3. “SCOUTING FOR GIRLS”: READING AND RECRUITMENT -- 4. “EXCREATE A N...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. “SINGLE WHITE FEMALE”: THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF SPINSTERHOOD IN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE’S OLDTOWN FOLKS -- 2. “TRYING ALL KINDS”: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S PEDAGOGIC EROTICS -- 3. “SCOUTING FOR GIRLS”: READING AND RECRUITMENT -- 4. “EXCREATE A NO SENSE”: THE EROTIC CURRENCY OF GERTRUDE STEIN’S TENDER BUTTONS -- 5. THE M MULTIPLYING: MARIANNE MOORE, ELIZABETH BISHOP, AND THE PLEASURES OF INFLUENCE, PART 1 -- 6. INFLUENCE AND INVITATION: MARIANNE MOORE, ELIZABETH BISHOP, AND THE PLEASURES OF INFLUENCE, PART 2 -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX Ausführliche Beschreibung