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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marilyn schuster0”
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  • Passionate Communities

    Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction

    by Marilyn R. Schuster ...
    Series series The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series
    In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures.From her earliest novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Junctures in Women's Leadership

    Higher Education

    by Carmen Twillie Ambar, Carol T. Christ, Michele Ozumba, Leslee Ann Fisher, Karen Lawrence, Patricia Pelfrey, Susan Bourque, Marilyn Schuster0, Karen Stubaus1, Jacquelyn Sue Litt2, Elizabeth Kiss3, Maureen Mahoney4 ...
    Series series Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership
    Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Higher Education brings into sharp focus the unique attributes of women leaders in the academy and adds a new dimension of analysis to the field of women’s leadership studies. Women leaders interviewed in this volume include Bernice Sandler, Juliet Villarreal García, and Johnnetta Betsch Cole. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Queer Love Story

    The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

    Edited by Marilyn Schuster ...
    Series series Sexuality Studies
    In August 1989, Jane Rule – novelist, essayist, and the first widely recognized “public lesbian” in North America – summed up the first eight years of her correspondence with Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic: “It seems to me that what has concerned us is richly human and significantly focused on the concerns of our time and our tribe.”Rule lived in a remote ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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