TY - BOOK AU - Waelti-Walters,Jennifer TI - Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel SN - 9780773568570 AV - PQ637.H65 W34 2000 U1 - 843.009/35206643 PY - 2000/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Lesbians in literature KW - French fiction-History and criticism KW - Electronic books N2 - Damned Women charts the previously unexplored literary territory of the place of lesbians in the French novel. Beginning with the early depictions of lesbians as "decadent monsters" by nineteenth-century male authors such as Diderot, Balzac, and Gautier, Jennifer Waelti-Walters shows how later, little-known female writers struggled to free lesbian characters from imposed stereotypes UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3330584 ER -