{"product_id":"passionate-communities-reading-lesbian-resistance-in-jane-rules-fiction-2","title":"Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Marilyn R. Schuster\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of \"writing and reading lesbian\" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom her earliest novel,\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDesert of the Heart\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept of a fixed identity and to the identity politics founded on such a concept. Incorporating all of Jane Rule's early work-including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan mail she received-Schuster also draws on interviews, conversations, and personal encounters with the author to elicit the ways in which Rule interrogates the meanings and politics of sexuality, the relationship between sexuality and language, and the stakes of communities in individual claims on identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003ePassionate Communities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a thorough, engaging, and long-overdue study of an important voice in lesbian literature and gay and lesbian politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/b\u003e 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e NYU Press (June 1999)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814781333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eProduct Dimensions: \u003c\/b\u003e15.2 x 1.8 x 22.9 cm","brand":"BRUNSWICK BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39814822729,"sku":"111588","price":37.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/8600\/products\/passionate_communities.jpg?v=1499279840","url":"https:\/\/www.littlesisters.ca\/products\/passionate-communities-reading-lesbian-resistance-in-jane-rules-fiction-2","provider":"Little Sisters Book \u0026 Art Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}