Bøker av Susan J. Leonardi

Exploring the myriad roles the diva has played in masculinist, feminist, and ""queer"" imaginations, this text looks at their omnipresence since the 18th century. The divas discussed are from opera, film, literature and pop music, and flirt with and fulfil the fantasy of woman with a voice.

Dangerous by Degrees vividly describes and analyzes women's experience at Oxford shortly before and after the First World War. The Somerville experience, in its simultaneous rejection and embrace of women's traditional place, stands as a prototype of the ambivalent, confusing, and conflicted stories which the women who lived that experience subsequently tell in their fictions.