Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2009 Female sexuality in Toni Morrison's Love Katharine Lynn Fulton Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, and the Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation Fulton, Katharine Lynn, "Female sexuality in Toni Morrison's Love" (2009). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 10621. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/10621 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Female sexual identity in Toni Morrison’s Love by Katharine Lynn Fulton A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Major: English (Literature) Program of Study Committee: Kathleen Hickok, Major Professor Diane Price-Herndl Margaret LaWare Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2009 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction.............................................................................1 Chapter 2: Critical Views of Female Sexuality.........................................4 Oedipal Configurations and Female Sexuality.............................5 Triangular Desire and Female Sexuality.......................................8