Fashioning Sapphism
Subtitle: the origins of a modern English lesbian culture
By: Laura Doan
Series: Between men--between women
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780231110068; 9780231110075
Subjects: Conditions sociales; Gays in popular culture; Lesbische liefde; Lesbians in mass media; History; Subcultuur; Homosexuels dans la culture populaire; Lesbiennes dans les médias; Lesbiennes; Histoire; Lesbianisme; Social conditions; Lesbians in literature; Lesbian culture; Lesbiennes dans la littérature; Lesbians
Description: "The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's 'The Well of Loneliness' (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture. Drawing on extensive new archival research, 'Fashioning Sapphism' locates Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation - thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the decade after the First World War." -- back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "It's Hard to Tell Them Apart Today" --; title: The Mythic Moral Panic: Radclyffe Hall and the New Genealogy --; title: "That Nameless Vice Between Women": Lesbianism and the Law --; title: Outraging the Decencies of Nature? Uniformed Female Bodies --; title: Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s --; title: Lesbian Writers and Sexual Science: A Passage to Modernity? --; title: Portrait of a Sapphist? Fixing the Frame of Reference.