Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture

by Helena Michie

Book Overview

This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts ranging from Victorian mainstream fiction to African-American mulatto novels, from late twentieth-century lesbian communities to contemporary country music. Michie uses the term "sororophobia" to describe the negotiation of sameness and difference, of identity and separation, among women of the same...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073878
• ISBN13: 9780195073874
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"