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A lesbian history of Britain : love and sex between women since 1500
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A lesbian history of Britain : love and sex between women since 1500

Author: Rebecca Jennings, Dr.
Publisher: Oxford, England ; Westport, Conn. : Greenwood World Pub., 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Drawing on a range of historical sources - court records, newspaper reports, medical records, novels, oral histories, and personal papers, this book presents the history of lesbian experience in  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Jennings, Rebecca.
Lesbian history of Britain.
Oxford, England ; Westport, Conn. : Greenwood World Pub., 2007
(OCoLC)652402544
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rebecca Jennings, Dr.
ISBN: 9781846450075 1846450071
OCLC Number: 144570842
Description: xix, 227 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Invisibility or cultural renaissance? same-sex desire, 1500-1800 --
Cross-dressing and female husbands, 1600-1800 --
Romantic friendship, 1700-1900 --
'New women', 1850-1900 --
Sexology and the science of sex, 1880s-1920s --
Sapphism and the First World War, 1914-1918 --
Identity crisis? the emergence of the modern lesbian, 1918-1939 --
Lesbian bars, 1920s-1970s --
Lesbian social organisations, 1960s-1970s --
The politics of lesbianism, 1970-2000.
Responsibility: Rebecca Jennings.
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"In their separate histories of gay and lesbian Britain, Matt Cook and Rebecca Jennings have produced not only impressive historiographical summaries of recent scholarship but also compelling narratives of same-sex desire in Britain."

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