Lesbian dames
Subtitle: Sapphism in the long eighteenth century
By: [edited] by John C. Beynon and Caroline Gonda
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780754673354; 9781409409816
Description: "After more than a generation of lesbian-gay scholarship that has examined identities, practices, prohibitions and transgressions surrounding same-sex desire, this collection offers an exciting and indispensable array of new scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The contributors - who include noted writers, critics and historians such as Emma Donoghue, George E. Haggerty, Susan S. Lanser and Valerie Traub - provide varied and provocative research into the dynamics and histories of lesbianism and Sapphism. They build on the work of scholarship on Sapphism and interrogate the efficacy of such a notion in describing the varieties of same-sex love between women during the long eighteenth century."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.