A desire for women : relational psychoanalysis, writing, and relationships between women / Suzanne Juhasz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juhasz, Suzanne, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

History.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

Interpersonal relations in literature.

Mothers and daughters in literature.

Female friendship in literature.

Psychology in literature.

Lesbians in literature.

Sisters in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Love and language

Daughter-writing and the search for recognition : Vivian Gornick's fierce attachments : a memoir, Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, and Susannah Moore's My old sweetheart

A wedge-shaped core of darkness : representing the mother : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse

Mother-writing and the narrative of maternal subjectivity : Mary Gordon's Men and angels and Toni Morrison's Beloved

The shapes of maternal desire : Liza Nelson's Playing Botticelli

Riding the flying mare and being her : complementary identification and lesbian desire : poetry by Merle Woo, Thérèse Murdza, Judy Grahn, Marilyn Hacker, Amy Edgington, Pat Parker, Lori Falukner, and Janice Gould

A drive from the mother's blood : lesbian relationship : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name

Readerly desire and the transference relationship : Joan Gould's Spirals : a woman's journey through family life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-235) and index.

ISBN:

0813532736

0813532744

OCLC:

50737464