Cairns, Lucille
About the author: Lucille Cairns received her PhD from the University of London. She is currently Senior lecturer in French at the University of Stirling, Scotland. She is the author of Marie Cardinal: Motherhood and Creativity (1992), Privileged Pariahdom: Homosexuality in the Novels of Dominique Fernandez (1996), and numerous articles and chapters on male and female homosexuality in French literature and cinema.
2002 0-7734-7110-3Cairns's focus on post-1968 literature allows for a detailed analysis of the texts she examines. She stresses the cultural erasing of lesbians and lesbian writers in French society and argues convincingly for the importance of including the social and cultural context in the analysis of this body of literature.
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