Books by Judith Roof

Demonstrates that representations of lesbian sexuality occupy specific locations or positions in the arguments, subject matter, and rhetoric of Western European and American literary criticism. This book examines the political context of representations: how lesbian sexuality is used as a signifier and why it appears when and where it does.

Examines the relation between representation and technological change, setting forth a psychoanalytic argument which links popular culture with law and technology.

Looks at female comic secondary characters who, though never on center stage, play an indispensable role in enriching and complicating the course of the narrative. This title explores what is queer about the middle - in the sense of eccentric and in terms of desire - and how that queerness functions as a part of and an antidote to narrative.

Ranging through films, television, lesbian novels, and narrative theory from Victor/Victoria to Star Trek: The Next Generation, from Barnes's Nightwood to Barthes's The Pleasure of the Text, Judith Roof charts how ideas of narrative and sexuality inform, determine, and reproduce one another. She identifies the paradigmatic lesbian story, its unvarying repetition, and how it might be recast.