(Un)familiar femininities :

Rajendran, Aneeta,

(Un)familiar femininities : studies in contemporary lesbian South Asian texts / Unfamiliar femininities Aneeta Rajendran. - First edition. - New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015. - x, 330 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements ; An Introduction ; 1. Gender Insubordination: (Un)Familiar Butch Desire ; 2. Lesbians in the House! Cinema and Queer Female Desire ; 3. The (Un)Familiar in the Heart of the Family:Portraits of the Lesbian as a Married Woman ; 4. Unbecoming Women: Shaping (Un)Familiar Lives ; Conclusions: Mainstreaming (Un)Familiarities ; Index ; About the Author

9780199454914 (hbk.) Rs875.00 0199454914 (hbk.)

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Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.--21st century
Lesbians in literature.
Lesbianism in literature.

820.9954 RAJ / 008823