num_pages: 496
description: 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.
language: English
title: Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
titlecomplete: Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
genres: LGBT, Feminism, Historical, History, Lesbian, Gender, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Queer, Womens
ratings_count: 811
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Stonewall Book Award
publisher: Harper Paperbacks