By Helena Michie
This publication seems to be at how ameliorations between girls were textually represented at numerous ancient moments and in numerous cultural contexts, together with Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, overdue twentieth-century lesbian groups, and modern kingdom song. Sororophobia designates the complicated and moving kin among women's makes an attempt to spot with different ladies and their usually simultaneous wish to determine and hold distinction. Michie argues for the centrality to feminism of a paradigm that strikes past celebrations of id and sisterhood to a extra nuanced suggestion of women's family with different girls which can comprise such uncomfortable ideas as envy, jealousy, and festival in addition to extra institutionalized principles of distinction resembling race and sophistication. Chapters on literature are interspersed via "inter-chapters" at the choreography of sameness and distinction between ladies in pop culture.
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We have no way of knowing the exact context for what seems to be an indictment of sisters with the leisure to think about their'' fine feelings," but it does seem as though jealousy between sisters of a certain class was common enough for Yonge to bring the weight of biblical prohibition to bear on its display. What emerges from both Yonge and Ellis is an ideal sisterhood that absorbs conflict into meticulously choreographed contrast. Like the more contemporary sisters discussed by McNaron, Victorian sisters, it seems, worked on resolving conflict through role playing.
Like Norah, who pulls Magdalen into her domestic orbit at the end of No Name, Lizzie seems to see a proper marriage as a joint sisterly venture, as an institution that de-emphasizes sexual difference in favor of reproduction. ' 'Goblin Market," most frequently read as an allegory of sexual fall, is perhaps more accurately also a poem about sexual difference; its moral center is not so much virginity as the undifferentiation of which virginity is only a sign. Lizzie, the good sister, privileges innocence as a state of sororal fusion; the power of her rhetoric and of her moral life depends on sameness and repetition: the repetition of words and phrases like "no, no, no," of images like the lily to which both sisters are frequently compared, and of tasks like the routine household chores in which she takes so much pleasure.
Many homophobic and lesbian-feminist accounts of lesbianism, as I explain in more detail in Chapter 4, share a dependence on tropes of sameness; women's attractions to other women have until recently almost always been seen, for better or for worse, as attractions produced by or at least enabled by morphological and psychological similarity. The erotics of sisterhood in ' 'Goblin Market" suggest something more complicated; even the rhetoric of sameness insisted on by almost incantatory repetition of the word "like" and seemingly identical body parts (head, cheek, breast) depend for their articulation on prior difference, on Laura's assertion of self that removes her from Lizzie.
