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Index Abbandonato, Linda , 6 , 15 8 Abject, 32-3 3 Acker, Kathy , 169 , 171-72 , 17 5 Affectionate Shepheard, The (Barnfield) , 109 African-American wome n writers , 6 , 156— 58, 174 . See also, specific authors and works AIDS crisis, 66 Alcoff, Linda , 18-19 , 67 , 10 4 Alice Doesn't (d e Lauretis), 3 1 Aliens, 29-30 , 57-58 , 59 , 61, 138 Allen, Caroly n J., 5 , 17 0 Allison, Dorothy , 5 3 Alternative narrativ e systems : an d closure , 49, 55; femal e agenc y in , 39, 59 ; "medicine bundle " model , 54-56; an d narrative disruption , 46—47 ; and nature, 38-39; an d retelling , 53-54 ; and rol e reversal, 29-30, 56-59 ; an d structural relationships , 41 , 60; and tex t images, 57—59. See also Lesbia n narrative; Narrativ e disruption ; Traditional narrativ e system ; specific topics and works Always Coming Home (L e Guin), 55—56 Amoretti (Spenser) , 11 1 Andreadis, Harriette , 8 6 Androgyny, 18 , 68-72, 73 , 76, 80-81 , 9 2 Anzaldua, Gloria , 65, 104- 5 As You Like It (Shakespeare) , 48 , 15 1 Atwood, Margaret , 143 . See also "Circe / Mud Poems " (Atwood ) Auerbach, Nina , 54 , 155 , 156 , 16 4 Awakening, The (Chopin) , 4 9 Bakhtin, M . M. , 3 3 Bal, Mieke, 29, 30, 36, 56-57, 60 , 19 3 Barale, Michele Aina , 1 8 Barnes, Djuna, 76 , 103 , 17 0 Barney, Natalie , 7 3 Barnfield, Richard , 10 9 Barthes, Roland, 7 , 26, 47, 110 , 19 5 Bartkowski, Fran , 13 7 Baudelaire, Charles , 16 , 76, 10 6 Bellini, Vincenzo, 3 Benjamin, Walter , 63 , 76 Benveniste, Emile , 34, 3 6 Berg, Alban, 3 Berger, John, 9 3 Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Sedgwick) , 1 5 Bieiris de Romans , 8 5 Bildungsroman, 40 , 5 9 Bishop, Elizabeth, 7 Black Feminist Criticism (Christian) , 15 7 "Blank Page , The" (Dinesen) , 6 , 19 6 Blood, Bread, and Poetry (Rich) , 65 Body: anatomizatio n of , 169-70 , 172 , 190, 192 ; and anima l imagery , 123 ; as boundary, 32-33 ; an d butch-femm e couple, 170 ; and gender , 67 , 100-101 , 171-72; an d home, 131-32 ; normalization of , 21 , 122, 124 ; an d postmodernism, 100-101 , 102 , 106 , 168-69, 171-72 ; in Renaissanc e poetry, 111-12 , 113—14 ; and sameness , 67, 100-101 , 124 , 130 , 131 ; and violence, 191-92 . See also Gender ; Lesbian subjec t a s grotesque body ; Sexuality 217 218 • Inde x Boone, Joseph Allen , 40, 49, 117 , 155-56 Booth, Alison , 1 6 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldua) , 10 4 Bordo, Susan, 2 3 Borghi, Liana , 128 , 13 3 Boswell, John, 8 5 Bradley, Mario n Zimmer . See Mists of Avalon, The Bredbeck, Gregor y W. , 5 Brewer, Maria Minich , 17 2 "Briar Ros e (Sleepin g Beauty)" (Sexton) , 27-28,45-46 Britten, Benjamin, 2 Brooke-Rose, Christine , 2 9 Brooks, Peter, 49-50, 54 , 5 8 Brossard, Nicole , 63, 87-88, 17 4 Broumas, Olga , 5 , 7 , 129 , 17 4 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett , 13 0 Brown, Judith C , 8 6 Brown, Rit a Mae , 13 7 Bulkin, Elly, 12 0 Butch-femme couple : an d androgyny , 71; and differences , 64-65 , 99-100, 102 3 ; an d gende r disruption , 12 , 64—65, 100, 103 , 105, 188 ; and grotesqu e body, 12 , 100 , 170 ; an d lesbian feminism , 17 ; and sameness , 100—101 ; and sexuality , 106 , 16 8 Butler, Judith, 9 , 51, 63, 95, 96, 100 101 , 171 , 178 Byatt, A . S., 41, 44 Callas, Maria, 42 , 17 4 Cameron, Anne , 137-3 8 Camp, 12 , 10 5 Carlston, Eri n G. , 9 5 Carmen, 2 Carpenter, Edward , 17 , 75, 82, 104- 5 "Carrier Ba g Theory o f Fiction , The" (L e Guin), 54-5 5 Carruthers, Mary , 87 , 8 8 Carruth, Hayden , 11 5 Case, Sue-Ellen, 12 , 18 , 64-65, 105 , 168, 169, 18 8 Castle, Terry, 1 , 3, 5, 9, 20, 22, 59-60 , 61 Cather, Willa , 7 Ceremony (Silko) , 53 Chatman, Seymour , 2 9 Chauncey, George , Jr., 7 5 Chopin, Kate , 4 9 Christian, Barbara , 157 , 160 , 17 4 "Cinderella" (Sexton) , 4 5 "Circe/Mud Poems " (Atwood) , 29, 34, 35, 45 , 59, 121 ; active/passive space s in, 32, 36-38; mal e bonding in, 28, 31, 43-44; metaflctiona l natur e of , 26-27 ; nature in , 38, 39; violence in, 28, 32, 37, 18 0 Cixous, Helene, 1 , 12 , 48, 50-51, 52 , 6 4 Clement, Catherine , 1 , 48-4 9 Closure, 22 , 199 ; and alternativ...

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