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Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of ...

Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of ...

Elizabeth Susan Wahl - Family & Relationships - 1999 - 358 pages
This book explores how representations of intimacy between women included both a sexualized model of the "lesbian" tribade and an "idealized" model that portrayed female ...
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Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714

Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714

Harriette Andreadis - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 254 pages
, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual ...
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Passions between women: British lesbian culture, 1668-1801
Desire and Ansiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama
The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall

The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall

Terry Castle - Literary Collections - 2003 - 1110 pages
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet" "[The poet] is a seer.... he is ...
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Lesbianism: an annotated bibliography and guide to the literature, 1976-1991

Lesbianism: an annotated bibliography and guide to the literature, 1976-1991

Dolores J. Maggiore - 1992 - 264 pages
...a useful source of information on lesbians and lesbianism as viewed in academic publications. --FEMINIST COLLECTIONS ...should be in the resource library of every social ...
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Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65

Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65

Cameron Duder - Social Science - 2010 - 313 pages
The lives of many lesbians prior to 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class “romantic friends” and on working-class butch and ...
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Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance

Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance

Schwarz - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 284 pages
An exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to both homerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early modern English texts.
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Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary ...

Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary ..., Volume 23

Claude J. Summers - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 222 pages
This new book significantly contributes to an increased understanding of the gay and lesbian experience as it illuminates important works of literature and clarifies the status ...
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Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects

Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects

Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 301 pages
How did the new developments of the Renaissance affect the way women were understood by men and the way they understood themselves? Addressing a wide range of issues across ...
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