Gonda Caroline
Catharine's College, Cambridge, CB2 1RL, UK.
J Lesbian Stud. 2007;11(1-2):89-105. doi: 10.1300/J155v11n01_06.
This article examines the ethical force and function of same-sex relationships in a ten-volume sequence of English children's books, published between 1948 and 1982, by Antonia Forest (pseudonym for Patricia Rubinstein, 1915-2003). From the late 1940s onwards, Forest's fiction articulates what Adrienne Rich theorizes in her classic work of lesbian ethics, "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying" (1975): the idea of same-sex bonds as the locus and standard of the ethical. Through the characters of the Marlow family (six sisters, two brothers) and their friends and enemies, Forest explores questions of honesty and self-deception, fidelity (both religious and personal) and betrayal, integrity and duality, performance and the boundaries of the self. Forest's exploration of these questions is persistently inflected by a resistance to heterosexuality and by a privileging of same-sex bonds, whether female or male. Forest's resistance to the pressures of conventional pieties and expected emotions, whether about love, friendship or the family, makes these books particularly important for lesbian readers.
本文探讨了安东尼娅·福雷斯特（帕特里夏·鲁宾斯坦的笔名，1915 - 2003）在1948年至1982年间出版的一套十卷本英文儿童书籍中，同性关系的伦理力量和作用。从20世纪40年代末起，福雷斯特的小说阐述了阿德里enne·里奇在其经典女同性恋伦理著作《女人与荣誉：关于说谎的一些笔记》（1975年）中提出的理论：将同性关系视为伦理的核心和标准。通过马洛家族（六个姐妹、两个兄弟）的角色以及他们的朋友和敌人，福雷斯特探讨了诚实与自我欺骗、忠诚（包括宗教和个人层面）与背叛、正直与二元性、表现与自我边界等问题。福雷斯特对这些问题的探索始终受到对异性恋的抵制以及对同性关系（无论男女）的重视的影响。福雷斯特对传统虔诚观念和预期情感（无论是关于爱情、友谊还是家庭）压力的抵制，使得这些书籍对女同性恋读者尤为重要。
