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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 |
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| 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." Reviewed with "A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages" - Journal of British Studies
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