Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction

by Marilyn R. Schuster

Book Overview

In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures.
From her earliest novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept of a fixed identity and to the identity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814781330
• ISBN13: 9780814781333
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"