Bøker av Phyllis M. Betz

Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V. Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian popular literature. Yet her work has received little scholarly attention. This critical study explores Forrest's entire body of work, including her fiction and (perhaps more important) her writing about writing, popular genres and her readers.

Examines how lesbian authors have used the structures and conventions of science fiction to embody characters, relationships and other themes that relate to their experience as the quintessential Other in the broader culture. Topics include lesbian gothic, fantasy, science fiction, mixed genre texts, and historical background for the works discussed.

Offers an evaluation of the popular romance novel genre through the subgenre of the lesbian romance novel. This work describes the history of the lesbian romance novel and analyses works by authors writing in the genre as well as describing the ways in which lesbian romance novels reflect and transform the techniques of heterosexual romances.

Offers an analysis of the matter of lesbian detective fiction - its content, characters, and structures - and the motive for lesbians reading detective fiction.