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In the Lesbian and Gay Studies series this work draws on literary and cultural theory to demonstrate the ways in which lesbian identities are ascribed and resisted. It looks at the identity models of the hero, the flaneur and the lesbian outlaw as well as lesbian 'space' both materially and imaginatively.

This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against reading as a 'woman' or as a 'heterosexual'. Contributors both explore the uses of recent theories such as post-structuralism and offer a lesbian critique of such methodologies. Close readings of contemporary lesbian fiction and popular culture focus on works such as "Zami, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Wanderground, " and "Desert of the Heart" as ...

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In Queer Attachments, Sally R. Munt explores the vicissitudes of shame across a range of texts, cultural milieux, historical locations and geographical spaces. This passionately argued book is an interdisciplinary synthesis of cultural politics, emotions theory and narrative that challenges us to think about the queerly creative proclivities of shame.

Questions of space have become central to theorizing identity. Heroic Desire engages spatial paradigms in considering lesbian desire. Arguing against constructions of the self as alienated and fragmentary, Sally Munt posits the model of heroic desire to explain how lesbian space is taken up, materially and imaginatively.

Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics, whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive, and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today. Along the way Munt poses some critical...

Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States.Sally R. Munt asks why the form has proven so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics, whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive, and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today.Along the way Munt poses some critica...