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Desire and the divine feminine identity in white southern women's writing / by Amende, Kathaleen E., 1972-

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Dirt and desire reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 / by Yaeger, Patricia

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Desire and domestic fiction a political history of the novel / by Armstrong, Nancy

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Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature / by Pinto, Cristina Ferreira, 1960-

Subjects: “…Desire in literature. 36553…”
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Reading the Brontë body disease, desire, and the constraints of culture / by Torgerson, Beth E. (Beth Ellen)

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Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature / by Pinto, Cristina Ferreira, 1960-

Subjects: “…Desire in literature.…”
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Eccentricity and sameness : discourses on lesbianism and desire between women in Italy, 1860s-1930s / by Ross, Charlotte, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Pathologies and passions in late nineteenth-century medical discourses -- Fatal attractions. troubling desires in the novel -- Flammable proximity: the scuola normale femminile and beyond -- From pathologization to the defence of pleasure: sexology and its parodies -- Literary luxury and cultural calls for female sexual liberation -- The desire without a name: visions of a difference that might have been -- Sexology and the new woman under fascism -- Tales of sexual initiation and sapphic feminism -- Loneliness, disorder and the disappearing lesbian.…”
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Mail and female epistolary narrative and desire in Ovid's Heroides / by Lindheim, Sara H.

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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Blumberg -- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey -- The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow -- Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. Kreisel -- "A pauper every wife is" : Lady Westmeath, money, marriage, and divorce in early nineteenth-century England / Janette Rutterford -- Marriage, celibacy, or emigration? …”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Blumberg -- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey -- The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow -- Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. Kreisel -- "A pauper every wife is" : Lady Westmeath, money, marriage, and divorce in early nineteenth-century England / Janette Rutterford -- Marriage, celibacy, or emigration? …”
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Transgressing boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's fiction by Front, Sonia

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Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Blumberg -- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey -- The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow -- Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. Kreisel -- "A pauper every wife is" : Lady Westmeath, money, marriage, and divorce in early nineteenth-century England / Janette Rutterford -- Marriage, celibacy, or emigration? …”
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The female thermometer eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / by Castle, Terry

“…Ideologies of desire.…”
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Evolutionary rhetoric sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / by Hayden, Wendy, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The Season of Battle: The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America -- Evolutionary Theory: (R) volutionary Rhetorics in the Free Love Movement -- Physiology: Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire -- Bacteriology: Marriage as a diseased Institution -- Embryology: Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism -- Heredity: The Disappearing Reform Warrant -- Conclusion: Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics.…”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- "Dancing through the minefield : some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism" (1980) / Annette Kolodny -- "What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist literary criticism" (1981) / Bonnie Zimmerman -- "Aesthetics" from How to suppress women's writing (1983) / Joanna Russ -- "Caste, class, and canon" (1981/1987) / Paul Lauter -- "A criticism of our own : autonomy and assimilation in Afro-American and feminist literary theory" (1989) / Elaine Showalter -- "Introduction" from Gender in African women's writing : identity, sexuality, difference (1997) / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- "Introduction : on the politics of literature" from The resisting reader : a feminist approach to American fiction (1978) / Judith Fetterley -- "The father's seduction" from The daughter's seduction: feminism and psychoanalysis (1982) / Jane Gallop -- "Constructing the subject : deconstructing the text (1985) / Catherine Belsey -- "Introduction" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Gender assymetry and erotic triangles" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Apostrophe, animation, and abortion" (1986) / Barbara Johnson -- "Feminist politics : what's home got to do with it?" …”
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The glass slipper : women and love stories / by Weisser, Susan Ostrov

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- Why Charlotte Bronte despised Jane Austen (and what that tells us about the modern meaning of love) -- The true and real thing: Victorian and modern magazine cultures of romance -- Victorian desires and modern romances: Pocahontas on a bridge in Madison County -- For the love of mermaids, beasts, and vampires (and ghosts, robots, monsters, witches, and aliens): romancing the other -- Women who love too much ... or not enough...or the wrong way: the tragedy and comedy of romantic love in modern movies -- Feminism and Harlequin romance: the problem of the love story -- A genre of one's own: African American romance imprints and the "universality" of love -- Is female to romance as male is to porn? …”
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