1st Edition

Lesbian Discourses Images of a Community

By Veronika Koller Copyright 2008
226 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Lesbian Discourses  is the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse. It looks at what changing images of community American and British lesbian authors have communicated since 1970, how this change can be traced in texts such as pamphlets, magazines and blogs, and why this change has taken place. At the heart of the book is a detailed linguistic analysis, which is embedded... Read more
  1. List of Tables and Figures

    Acknowledgments

    Chapter One: Introduction: Lesbian Discourses, Lesbian Texts

    Chapter Two: Approaches to Researching Lesbian Discourses

    Chapter Three: Creating a Community: The 1970s

    Chapter Four: Challenging the Community: The 1980s

    Chapter Five: Contradicting Voices within the Community: The 1990s

    Chapter Six: Consuming the Community: The 2000s

    Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Changing Images, Changing Communities

    Glossary

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

Biography

Veronika Koller received her PhD from Vienna University (2003). She was appointed as lecturer to the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University in 2004.