The Lesbian Premodern [electronic resource] /
Giffney, Noreen.editor.
Sauer, Michelle M.editor.
Watt, Diane.editor.
Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation to premodern cultures.
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Theories and historiographies -- The present future of lesbian historiography / Valerie Traub -- A wrangling parliament? : terminology and audience in medieval European literary studies and lesbian studies / Anne Laskaya -- Lesbian history and erotic reading / Lara Farina -- The queer time of the lesbian premodern / Carla Freccero -- "Virgins" and "not women" : dissident gender positions / Theodora Jankowski -- Readings and histories -- Virgin desires : reading a homoerotics of female monastic community / Lisa M.C. Weston -- Medieval Barbie dolls : femme fatales in ascetic collections / Anna Klosowska -- Naming love : the god Kama, the goddess Ganga, and the child of two women / Ruth Vanita -- Remembering Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge / Judith M. Bennett -- Towards a philology of the premodern lesbian / Helmut Puff -- Encounters with the lesbian premodern -- Lesbian time / Heike Bauer -- A usable past? / Lillian Faderman -- Sacramentality and the lesbian premodern / Elizabeth Freeman -- Invention is the necessity of lesbians / Linda Garber -- Lesbian ghosts / Martha Vicinus.
Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation to premodern cultures.
Sociology.
Literature, Medieval.
Civilization-History.
Social history.
Europe-History-476-1492.
World history.
Gender Studies.
Medieval Literature.
Cultural History.
Social History.
History of Medieval Europe.
World History, Global and Transnational History.