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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... sexologists ' strong Victorian convictions about appropriate gen- der behavior frequently led them to conflate sex - role behavior , gender identification , and sexual - object choice . For example , they believed that a female with a ...
... sexologists ' strong Victorian convictions about appropriate gen- der behavior frequently led them to conflate sex - role behavior , gender identification , and sexual - object choice . For example , they believed that a female with a ...
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... sexologists such as Karl von Westphal , Paul Moreau , and Cesare Lombroso , as well as Krafft - Ebing and Ellis , attributed other characteristics to their congenital inverts , which were then reflected in twentieth - century literature ...
... sexologists such as Karl von Westphal , Paul Moreau , and Cesare Lombroso , as well as Krafft - Ebing and Ellis , attributed other characteristics to their congenital inverts , which were then reflected in twentieth - century literature ...
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... sexologists . She had Havelock Ellis write a preface to her novel , and she even placed in the mouth of Stephen Gordon , her in- verted woman hero , lines borrowed from the Countess Sarolta's exhorta- tion to God as presented by Krafft ...
... sexologists . She had Havelock Ellis write a preface to her novel , and she even placed in the mouth of Stephen Gordon , her in- verted woman hero , lines borrowed from the Countess Sarolta's exhorta- tion to God as presented by Krafft ...
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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