O'Driscoll, Sally. "Lesbian Criticism and Feminist Criticism: Readings of Millenium Hall." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 22.1 (2003): 57-80. JSTOR. Web. 9 Apr. 2016.
• O’Driscoll explores the relationship between gender and sexuality, i.e. between lesbian and feminist criticism. In light of the new queer studies entering academia, O’Driscoll attempts to explain how these two types of readings can work together, and in sync to produce effective analysis and interpretations of various works. She argues that while they can be separate fields of study, they cannot ignore each other.
• O’Driscoll explains that she chose to examine Millenium Hall to explore the issue of gender and sexuality, because Scott’s text had almost exclusively been dealt with be feminist critics. O’Driscoll states: “…feminist criticism has indeed acted with large blind spots and has produced problematic readings. Blinded by gender, some feminist criticism has…show more content… And eventually, concludes that their “moral superiority” is lessened by their interactions with “tainted wealth” (Jordan 58). She references the fact that our narrator states he has recently returned from Jamaica, and that Miss Mancel’s fortune was acquired from the New World, which is often equated with colonialism.
• Jordan explains that: the novel offers evidence of Scott’s apprehension that colonial wealth may be deeply tainted…Though Scott does not intend to indict her heroines for participating in the colonial economy, her novel nevertheless makes it possible for readers to make that indictment,” (Jordan 57). By examining the obsessive discussion about how each woman earns her wealth, it affords interpretation of the reader as to whether or not those may have been funded by efforts in the
