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

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

Kent, Kathryn R.

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Series: Series Q

Literary CriticismGLBTQIA Studies

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ISBN10: 082233030X
ISBN13: 9780822330301
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 17 2003
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of the lesbian by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white, middle-class women's culture. Kent demonstrates how, as white women's culture shifted more and more from the home to the school, workplace, and boarding house, the boundaries between the public and private spheres began to dissolve. She shows how, within such spaces, women's culture, in attempting to mold girls into proper female citizens, ended up inciting in them other, less normative, desires and identifications, including ones Kent calls protolesbian or queer.

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