Passions Between Women
Passions Between Women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Far from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women in this period was a subject of confusion and contradiction: she could be put in a freak show as a 'hermaphrodite', denounced as a 'tribade' or 'lesbian', revered as a 'romantic friend', jailed as a 'female husband' or gossiped about as a 'woman-lover', 'tommy' or 'Sapphist'. Through an examination of a wealth of new medical, legal and erotic source material, together with re-readings of classics of English literature, Emma…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-7946-4
- EAN: 9781447279464
- Produktnummer: 16805277
- Verlag: Policy Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 362 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.5 cm 742 g
- Gewicht: 742
Über den Autor
Born in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who spent eight years in England before moving to Canada. Her fiction includes Slammerkin, Life Mask, Touchy Subjects and the international bestseller Room (shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes). In addition to Passions Between Women her non-fiction includes Inseparable and We are Michael Field.
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