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Resisting Marriage: Defying Expectations in Three Lesbian Novels Jennifer Jordan Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Honors Program Theses and Projects Undergraduate Honors Program 12-20-2017 Resisting Marriage: Defying Expectations in Three Lesbian Novels Jennifer Jordan Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons Recommended Citation Jordan, Jennifer. (2017). Resisting Marriage: Defying Expectations in Three Lesbian Novels. In BSU Honors Program Theses and Projects. Item 249. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj/249 Copyright © 2017 Jennifer Jordan This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Resisting Marriage: Defying Expectations in Three Lesbian Novels Jennifer Jordan Submitted in Partial Completion of the Requirements for Commonwealth Honors in English Bridgewater State University December 20, 2017 Dr. Matt Bell, Thesis Director Dr. Heidi Bean, Committee Member Dr. Kevin Kalish, Committee Member Resisting Marriage: Defying Expectations in Three Lesbian Novels In this thesis, the category of lesbian novels will be explored through three particular novels’ protagonists in order to study and analyze their unique views on marriage. These novels are Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon, Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. The protagonists in each of these novels, Laura, Molly, and Jeanette respectively, each have their own personal views on marriage both as an institution and how it pertains to them. These works were all published between 1957 and 1985, and as a result, these novels appear within a post World War II, Anglo-American culture. These novels were all received well by the world they were published into, with both Rubyfruit Jungle and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit winning awards and being critically viewed. While Odd Girl Out is considered a pulp novel, and therefore not seen as a valuable piece of literature, it was sold widely reaching a wide general audience. These novels all came out in a time when homosexuality was something taboo and unspoken. However, all three of them were viewed well, and they are seen as novels that pave the way for other novels with lesbian themes for the future. The scope of this thesis will incorporate the three novels, and explore the conflict that each of the three protagonists has with marriage within the plot. This includes how the women feel about marriage personally, how they perceive marriage from observing other people, and what they think of marriage as an institution. Often marriage is something that is expected of each of the women in the novels, and it is expected that they will both marry a man and have children. However, because each of these protagonists is a lesbian, marriage to a man is not in her future. The views on marriage do differ between each character, since they are each at different ages throughout the novels, in different time periods, and in different environments. 1 However, the conflict with marriage is one concept that is thought about by each protagonist at various points throughout each of the novels, with some protagonists focusing on it more heavily than others. The main method that is employed in this thesis is close reading. The work of close reading is one of the most basic and essential tools in the work of analyzing literature. Close reading at its core is meant to find the bulk of the information directly from the text itself. As such, using this method the main resources of this thesis will be the three novels in question. This allows for a more detailed look into the literature to gain reasoning for any particular argument, rather than relying on secondary sources to back up a claim that is made. The work of close reading rewards the reader with a deeper understanding of the text, and the ability to use this knowledge to make a claim that is central to the idea of the novel. That is why close reading will be the most important method used in this thesis; it will allow for the novels and their characters to be presented in a way that is true to the novel while also making its own distinct claim. The other method that is important to this thesis is in reference to secondary sources that examine lesbian novels. These sources come from various places, but each is a scholarly work that deals with the specific topic and collection of lesbian novels at hand. Examples of this research will be books that have been written on lesbian novels or the particular novels individually, a film that deals with lesbian novels and how they work, and articles found in academic journals that present their own argument on these lesbian novels or works that present relevant theory and critiques surrounding the topic. The scholarly work will contain arguments about queer/feminist theory, along with literary history to provide context to each of the three novels. I will look to works that add onto the novels including the chapter “The Woman- 2 Identified Woman” from the book For Lesbians Only written by Radicalesbians, Catharine Stimpson’s article “Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English,” the film Forbidden Love: the Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives directed by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman, Teresa De Lauretis’ article “Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation,” the book The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman, and various other works that are relevant to the topic. These sources will add upon the work of close reading as a way to gain knowledge about the novels and the time period that would not be possible to find within the novels themselves. The discussion of these three novels in particular creates an understanding that could not be found without the synthesis of the individual ideas found within the novels. With a relatively short span of time from the late 1950s to mid 1980s, the environment is thoroughly discussed by each of the authors. The claims from each of the novels creates a microcosm of thoughts on marriage. This allows a statement to be made about how these novels connect. Each of the protagonists offers a different perspective that ends in a similar place, with each woman having a negative viewpoint on marriage. This perspective could stem from their upbringings, their relationships, as well as the time periods into which they were born. These novels are set within a time where any kind of marriage equality may not have even been on their minds, which could also add to the negativity surrounding marriage. These three novels tell the story of their times, and I will speculate that the combination of these novels allows for an understanding of how the average lesbian within this time frame would view marriage. Odd Girl Out Odd Girl Out is a novel from 1957 written by Ann Bannon. This story is about a college girl named Laura who slowly realizes that she is a lesbian. She meets and falls for Beth, and is 3 surprised when her feelings are reciprocated. The two become closer, and they spend almost all their time together. Beth slowly falls into love with Charlie instead of Laura. She doesn’t want to hurt her, but Beth breaks Laura’s heart. Laura finally accepts herself, and leaves college to live her life away from the expectations placed upon her. Laura doesn’t think very much about marriage per se. She is not interested in being forced into marriage; this perspective is very different from that of the other two books. It focuses on “growing out” of homosexuality, and Laura’s intensity and regard for love rather than needing marriage. It focuses on accepting, and acting upon homosexuality, and that she has accepted that she will never be with a man. She plans to live her life loving women, and if that prevents marriage then so be it, because she will be happy. Although Laura does not think about marriage as much as Molly and Jeanette from the other two novels do, this presents a view on how a woman growing up in the late 50s would view marriage. She would focus on the quality of her relationships rather than the marriage that would not be legal anytime soon. This section of my thesis will analyze how Laura feels about marriage, how these feelings are formed, and how these feelings are affected by the time that she exists in. There is little academic literature written about this novel. However, two works were found that relate to this work: one an academic article, and one a documentary film. The first is an article entitled “Locating Queer Culture in the Big Ten” written by Siobhan Somerville. Her article focuses on the college that Bannon fictionalizes within her novel, and she uses student research about LGBT and other marginalized communities as a way to understand queerness. For the most part, Somerville’s discusses the ethnographic process used for projects in Somerville’s classes. She discusses the use of Odd Girl Out as a way of separating from the idea that being a 4 lesbian will come about in a big city, since Bannon’s novel takes place in a midwestern university. She also distinguishes between different uses of the word “queer” in society: “Thus, while Queer as an umbrella term pivots around a ‘straight/queer’ binary based on sexual orientation, Queer as critique recasts questions of power in terms of social norms rather than identities” (11). Using this idea, situations such as the one of Laura’s friend Emily, who was caught having sex with her boyfriend and removed from the sorority, can be seen as queer.
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