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Intimate friends : women who loved women, 1778-1928 / Martha Vicinus.
Author
Vicinus, Martha
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Description
xxxii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HQ75.5 .V53 2004
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Lesbians
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Summary note
'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.
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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.
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ISBN
0226855635 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226855639 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0226855643 ((pbk.))
9780226855646 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2003017510
OCLC
52819642
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