Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the PresentLillian Faderman Lesbian and bisexual literature over the past four centuries, tracing the evolution of the genre from romantic friendship, through the exotic and evil, to the explicitly sexual. An example of exotic and evil is provided by Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 vampire novella, Carmilla. By the author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. |
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... butch - femme dyad . The following selection is from The Pure and the Impure , a collection of reminiscences from Colette's life . La Chevalière is Missy , the Marquise de Belbeuf . It is interesting to note that the society that ...
... butch - femme dyad . The following selection is from The Pure and the Impure , a collection of reminiscences from Colette's life . La Chevalière is Missy , the Marquise de Belbeuf . It is interesting to note that the society that ...
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... butch . She has been an office worker , a janitor , a madam in a house of prostitution , a housebreaker , and a jail inmate . In the 1970s Hucklenbroich passed a high school equivalency exam and was admitted to college , from which she ...
... butch . She has been an office worker , a janitor , a madam in a house of prostitution , a housebreaker , and a jail inmate . In the 1970s Hucklenbroich passed a high school equivalency exam and was admitted to college , from which she ...
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... butch in black denim , elegant as ashes , her son perhaps sent back , a winter of no heat , a woman's salary . The quiet woman drinking gin , thinking of being sixteen , the baby wrinkled as wet clothes , seen once , never again . Loud ...
... butch in black denim , elegant as ashes , her son perhaps sent back , a winter of no heat , a woman's salary . The quiet woman drinking gin , thinking of being sixteen , the baby wrinkled as wet clothes , seen once , never again . Loud ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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