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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... women's equivalent passions with each other , though much else was forbidden women by male - controlled society . Intense , emotional , affectionate relations between females not only left men freer for their homosociality , but it ...
... women's equivalent passions with each other , though much else was forbidden women by male - controlled society . Intense , emotional , affectionate relations between females not only left men freer for their homosociality , but it ...
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... women's " raves , " " spoons , " " smashes , " " crushes " ( all terms coined to de- scribe a college female's falling in love with a woman professor or fellow student ) . The pioneering women who entered the professions during this ...
... women's " raves , " " spoons , " " smashes , " " crushes " ( all terms coined to de- scribe a college female's falling in love with a woman professor or fellow student ) . The pioneering women who entered the professions during this ...
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... woman . Women of wealth or position were usually above suspicion . For example , Charlotte Charke , the eighteenth - century actress and daughter of the famous playwright Colly Cibber , passed as Mr. Brown for a period of time and ...
... woman . Women of wealth or position were usually above suspicion . For example , Charlotte Charke , the eighteenth - century actress and daughter of the famous playwright Colly Cibber , passed as Mr. Brown for a period of time and ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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