Intimate friends : women who loved women, 1778-1928 / Martha Vicinus.

Author
Vicinus, Martha [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Description
xxxii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    'Intimate Friends' offers a study of the erotic friendships of educated English and American women in the century and a half up to the publication of Radclyffe Hall's novel 'The Well of Loneliness'. Vicinus also considers the roots of social phenomena such as homosexual self-hatred and female masculinity.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-302) and index.
    Contents
    • "A scheme of romantic friendship" : love and same-sex marriage
    • "Emancipated females" : the Rome community
    • "They venture to share the same bed" : possible impossibilities
    • "The gift of love" : religion and lesbian love
    • "A strenuous pleasure" : daughter-mother love
    • "Passion immense and unrestrained" : destructive desires
    • "Familiar misquotation" : Sapphic cross-dressing
    • "A love of domination" : the mannish invert and sexual danger
    • Beyond the family metaphor.
    ISBN
    • 0226855635 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780226855639 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0226855643 ((pbk.))
    • 9780226855646 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2003017510
    OCLC
    52819642
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