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| | glbtq >> literature >> American Literature: Lesbian, 1900-1969 |
 | | Whatever form it assumes--poetry, prose fiction, political treatise, autobiography, biography, history, criticism, theory--lesbian literature, as Monique Wittig has argued and Marilyn Farwell reiterated, occupies a "space which is 'not-woman,' which is not dependent on the categorization of difference that resides in the dualisms of man and woman. |
 | | Literature that promised entry into an outcast world of "twilight" love, these novels were, as Lillian Faderman remarks, "generally cautionary tales: 'moral' literature that warned females that lesbianism was sick or evil and that if a woman dared to love another woman she would end up lonely and suicidal." |
 | | By the late 1960s, lesbian literature had been tremendously emboldened by the gay and women's liberation movements and, in contrast to these tales of the outcast, offered more and more stories of a proud and affirmative community bent on changing public discourse and conventional society's reception of lesbian life. |
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