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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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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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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