Forced to be Feminine: Boyfriend to Lesbian: A Forced Feminisation Novel

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Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and parliamentary debates as well as crises within modern literary production - patronage relations, literary obscenity and cultural authority - to reveal how lesbian suggestion forced modern political, cultural and literary institutions to negotiate their own identities, ideals and limits. Reconsidering notions of the 'invisible' or 'apparitional' lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. All items are new and sealed. Some indie titles or signed editions may not have shrinkwrap. We do not sell bootlegs. And we're updating this list every week. Great for work, conventions, or to help keep track of your keys or wallet!

• Offers compelling stories of scandalous trials and their relationship to movements in modernist art and literature
• Draws surprising connections between lesbian allegations and political and artistic concerns
• Reconsiders established terms in 'lesbian history'/sexual history