Download or read book Desire and the Divine written by Kathaleen E. Amende and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the works and lives of late 20th-century southern women writers (Rosemary Daniell, Connie May Fowler, Lee Smith, Sheri Reynolds, Dorothy Allison, and Valerie Martin) to show how conservative Christian ideals of femininity shaped notions of religion, sexuality, and power, and how they and their characters grappled with opposing cultural expectations.