TY - BOOK AU - Kent,Kathryn R. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Making girls into women: American women's writing and the rise of lesbian identity T2 - Series Q SN - 9780822384571 AV - PS228.L47 K46 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Durham [N.C.] PB - Duke University Press KW - Alcott, Louisa May, KW - Stein, Gertrude, KW - Moore, Marianne, KW - Bishop, Elizabeth, KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Lesbians in literature KW - Women authors KW - Lesbians' writings, American KW - Women in literature KW - Girls in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-344) and index; "Single white female": the sexual politics of spinsterhood in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown folks -- "Trying all kinds": Louisa May Alcott's pedagogic erotics -- "Scouting for girls": reading and recruitment in the early twentieth century -- "Excreate a no sense": the erotic currency of Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons -- The M multiplying: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and the pleasure of influence, part I -- Influence and invitation: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the pleasures of influence, part 2 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1167910 ER -