Beyond sexual satisfaction : pleasure and autonomy in women’s inter-war novels in England and Ireland

Beyond sexual satisfaction : pleasure and autonomy in women’s inter-war novels in England and Ireland

My dissertation offers a new look at how women authors used popular genres to negotiate their economic, artistic, and sexual autonomy, as well as their national and imperial identities, in the context of the changes brought by modernity. As medical science and popular media attempted to delineate wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bacon, Catherine M.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Molly Keane
Winifred Holtby
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Kate O'Brien
Inter-war
Women's novels
Celibacy
Spinsters
Sexology and literature
Sex in literature
Single women in literature
English literature
British literature
20th century
Women writers
Women authors
Lolly Willowes
Land of green ginger
Rising tide
Mary Lavelle
Female sexuality
Lesbians in literature
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2674

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