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Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present
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Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present

Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher: New York : Morrow, 1981.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lillian Faderman
ISBN: 068803733X 9780688037338 0688003966 9780688003968
OCLC Number: 6861958
Awards: Gay Book Award (American Library Association), 1982
Description: 496 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Pt. I: The sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Lesbianism in a phallocentric universe. Lesbianism and the libertines ; What do women do? ; Eighteenth-century fantasy and the lesbian image ; Transvestism : persecution and impunity --
The enshrinement of romantic friendship. The revival of same-sex love : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; The "fashion" of romantic friendship in the eighteenth century ; The battle of the sexes ; Romantic friendship in eighteenth-century literature ; Romantic friendship in eighteenth-century life --
Pt. 2: The nineteenth century. Loving friends. The asexual woman ; Kindred spirits ; New women ; Boston marriage ; Love and "women who live by their brains" --
The reaction. The rise of antifeminism ; The contributions of the sexologists ; Lesbian exoticism ; Lesbian evil --
Pt. III: The twentieth century. Sophistication. The last breath of innocence ; The spread of medical "knowledge" ; Keeping women down ; Fiction as a weapon ; Internalization and rebellion --
When it changed. The rise of lesbian-feminism ; Writing lesbian ; Romantic friendship and lesbian love.
Responsibility: Lillian Faderman.

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