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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... close in- tercourse between males and females was potentially dangerous . It could introduce a threat to what was the sine qua non of a woman's social value . Thus , if males and females had so little in common and their relationships ...
... close in- tercourse between males and females was potentially dangerous . It could introduce a threat to what was the sine qua non of a woman's social value . Thus , if males and females had so little in common and their relationships ...
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... close together In the cooling weather , With clasping arms and cautioning lips , With tingling cheeks and fingertips . " Lie close , " Laura said , Pricking up her golden head : " We must not look at goblin men , We must not buy their ...
... close together In the cooling weather , With clasping arms and cautioning lips , With tingling cheeks and fingertips . " Lie close , " Laura said , Pricking up her golden head : " We must not look at goblin men , We must not buy their ...
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... close . Close . You read each other . Youre in each others skins . Youre like those little blades of grass that push their way up through cement , that uncurl in back alleys where the bricks are covered with gar- bage and bits of broken ...
... close . Close . You read each other . Youre in each others skins . Youre like those little blades of grass that push their way up through cement , that uncurl in back alleys where the bricks are covered with gar- bage and bits of broken ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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