Traversing the Feminine: The Reclamation of Women’s “Immense Bodily Territories” in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body and The Passion

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  • Margaret Ravenel Richardson University of St. Andrews

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Jeanette Winterson, Gender Studies, Postmodernism, Theory

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Traversing the Feminine: The Reclamation of Women’s “Immense Bodily Territories” in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body and The Passion. (2008). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 17. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/74