Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

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Allen, Carolyn. Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Brinks, Ellen and Talley, Lee, "Unfamiliar Ties: Lesbian Constructions of Home and Family in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories." Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home. Ed. Catherine Wiley. New York: Garland Press, 1996. 145–74

Grice, Helena and Woods, Tim, eds. "I'm telling you stories": Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.

Harris, Andrew L. Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Hinds, Hilary. "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Reaching Audiences Other Lesbian Texts Cannot Reach." New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings. Ed. Sally Munt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 153–72

O'Rourke, Rebecca. "Fingers in the Fruit Basket: A Feminist Reading of Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit." Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice. Ed. Susan Sellers. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1991. 57–69.

Rosemergy, Jan. "Navigating the Interior Journey: the Fiction of Jeanette Winterson." British Women Writing Fiction. Ed. Abby Werlock. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000. 248–69.

Winterson, Jeanette. Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995.

Wormald, Mark. "The Uses of Impurity: Fiction and Fundamentalism in Salman Rushie and Jeanette Winterson." An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction: International Writing in English since 1970. Ed. Rod Mengham. Cambridge, England: Polity, 1999. 182–202.

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