Böcker av Melanie C. Hawthorne

A survey of the history of women's claims to their own citizenship in Europe and the US from the nineteenth century to the present, illustrated through the transnational lives of three expatriate, sexually non-conforming women (Renee Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney).

An account of Rachilde's writing that illustrates important questions in feminist literary theory as well as significant features of turn-of-the-century French society. It illuminates nineteenth-century publishing practices and rivalries, including authorial manipulations of the market for sexually suggestive literature.

Explores the intriguing life of the real d'Estoc, explaining why others came to doubt the "experts" and following the threads of evidence that the latter overlooked