A desire for women : relational psychoanalysis, writing, and relationships between women

S. Juhasz

This book explores women's desire for women as it is located in examples of twentieth-century British and American women's writing, including fiction, memoir, and poetry by Virginia Woolf, Vivian Gornick, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Hacker, and Audre Lorde. Here, Suzanne Juhasz discusses how literary writing functions to enact and negotiate a series of relationships between women: daughter/mother, mother/daughter, lesbian lover/lesbian lover, writer/reader, and reader/writer.