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Ghost shockers: A parable of lesbian life

Pages 9-23 | Published online: 16 Sep 2010

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  • Castle , Terry . 1993 . The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture , New York : Columbia University Press . This piece salutes our beloved family friend Edna Bennett (29 September 1909–10 August 1991), a New York art gallery director and curator, gifted photographer, rare book specialist, and literary sleuth, who helped my research and relished every bit of it. After I heard Alastair Cooke introduce to PBS the British TV production of ‘The Real Charlotte’, I read ‘Ghost Shockers’ in a parodic talkback style to introduce, as guest professor, the first courses in Lesbian and Gay Studies at Sarah Lawrence College in September 1990. I thank Susan Magarey for inviting me, in September 1994, to repeat it for members of the joint seminar series of the University of Adelaide Research Centre for Women's Studies and the University of South Australia Research Center for Gender Studies. Recent work that theoretically explores some of the ideas illustrated here is
  • Lauretis , Teresa De . 1994 . The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire , Indiana : University of Indiana Press .
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  • Collis , Louise . 1984 . Impetuous Heart: A Biography of Ethel Smyth , London : William Kimber .

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