Feminism and its ghosts: The spectre of the feminist-as-lesbian

Feminist Theory

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 227-250

  Hesford, Victoria ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminist as lesbian; Ghosts; Haunting; History; Queer; Second wave feminism

Indexed keywords

EID: 28744457195     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: 17412773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700105057361     Document Type: Review

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