An edition of Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (1981)

Surpassing the Love of Men

Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

1st Morrow Quill paperback ed.

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An edition of Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (1981)

Surpassing the Love of Men

Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

1st Morrow Quill paperback ed.

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Draws a variety of sources from the writings of Henry James to the Ladies Home Journal to explore 500 years of friendship and love between women and to cast light on shifting female sexuality theories. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Reissue.

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Morrow
Language
English
Pages
496

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Subjects
History, Lesbianism, Love, Psychology, Lesbians in literature, Lesbians, Lesbianism in literature, Female friendship, Homosexuality, LGBTQ sociology, Stonewall Book Awards, Women, psychology, Women, history

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Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present
1998, Quill
in English
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Surpassing the Love of Men
1994, QPB
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Surpassing the love of men
1985, Women's Press, The Women's Press Ltd
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Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the sixteenth century to the present
1981, Morrow
in English - 1st ed.
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
1981, Morrow
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Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present
1981, Junction Books, Imprint unknown
in English
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Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present
1981, Quill
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Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present
1981, Morrow
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Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present
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Table of Contents

Introduction Page 15
Part I. The sixteenth through eighteenth centuries
A. Lesbianism in a phallocentric universe Page 21 1. Lesbianism and the libertines Page 23 2. What do women do? Page 31 3. Eighteenth-century fantasy and the lesbian image Page 38 4. Transvestism : persecution and impunity Page 47 B. The enshrinement of romantic friendship Page 63 1. The revival of same-sex love : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Page 65 2. The "fashion" of romantic friendship in the eighteenth century Page 74 3. The battle of the sexes Page 85 4. Romantic friendship in eighteenth-century literature Page 103 5. Romantic friendship in eighteenth-century life Page 119
Part II. The nineteenth century Page |
A. Loving friends Page 145 1. The asexual woman Page 147 2. Kindred spirits Page 157 3. New women Page 178 4. Boston marriage Page 190 5. Love and "women who live by their brains" Page 204 B. The reaction Page 231 1. The rise of antifeminism Page 233 2. The contributions of the sexologists Page 239 3. Lesbian exoticism Page 254 4. Lesbian evil Page 277
Part III. The twentieth century Page |
A. Sophistication Page 295 1. The last breath of innocence Page 297 2. The spread of medical "knowledge" Page 314 3. Keeping women down Page 332 4. Fiction as a weapon Page 341 5. Internalization and rebellion Page 357 B. When it changed Page 375 1. The rise of lesbian-feminism Page 377 2. Writing lesbian Page 392 3. Romantic friendship and lesbian love Page 411 Notes Page 417 Index Page 481

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.7/6/09
Library of Congress
HQ75.5 .F33 1981

The Physical Object

Pagination
496 p., [4] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
496

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Open Library
OL4111678M
Internet Archive
surpassingloveof00lill
ISBN 10
0688003966
LCCN
80026685
Library Thing
5423
Goodreads
4602847

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