A desire for women : relational psychoanalysis, writing, and relationships between women / Suzanne Juhasz.

Author/creator Juhasz, Suzanne, 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2003.
Descriptionx, 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Female friendship in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Lesbians in literature.
Sisters in literature.
Women in literature.

Contents Love and language -- Daughter-writing and the search for recognition : Vivian Gornick's fierce attachments : a memoir, Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, and Susannah Moore's My old sweetheart -- A wedge-shaped core of darkness : representing the mother : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- Mother-writing and the narrative of maternal subjectivity : Mary Gordon's Men and angels and Toni Morrison's Beloved -- The shapes of maternal desire : Liza Nelson's Playing Botticelli -- Riding the flying mare and being her : complementary identification and lesbian desire : poetry by Merle Woo, Thérèse Murdza, Judy Grahn, Marilyn Hacker, Amy Edgington, Pat Parker, Lori Falukner, and Janice Gould -- A drive from the mother's blood : lesbian relationship : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- Readerly desire and the transference relationship : Joan Gould's Spirals : a woman's journey through family life.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index.
LCCN 2002015873
ISBN0813532736 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813532744 (pbk. : alk. paper)