228• CONTEMPORARYLITERATUR E political and ontological unease around the
relationship between women and things―and the consequent threat that a turn to objects …

In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray both argues for and exemplifies a female
discourse that is characterized by simultaneity, fluidity, and multiplicity. Such a discourse …

This thesis aims to explore the categories of sexuality and gender through an analysis of
Jeanette Winterson's well-known novels, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Written on the …

This study analyzes the ways in which Jeanette Winterson's novels" Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit" and" Written on the Body" address the exploration of sexual desire and the self …

Abstract This reading of Jeanette Winterson's novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit moves
away from traditional “lesbian” studies and opts rather for a “queer” approach, ie one which …

In her Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler sets forth a concept of parody or
performativity that I would like to apply in developing a feminist narra tive poetics. Butler …

Jeanette Winterson's novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) illustrates the story of a
young girl, Jeanette, who experiences suppressive upbringing at the hands of her mother …

This study focuses on the appropriation of the Bildungsroman genre in Jeanette Winterson's
first book Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1985), a novel which is often referred to as the …

The novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, written by the British author Jeanette Winterson
and published in 1985, fits within the genre of Bildungsroman. Here, the heroines growth …

Michel Foucault argues in The History of Sexuality that “our bodies are trained, shaped and
impressed with the stamp of prevailing historical forms of selfhood, desire, masculinity and …