Sapphic modernities
Subtitle: sexuality, women, and national culture
By: edited by Laura Doan and Jane Garrity.
Contributors: Doan, Laura L., 1951-; Garrity, Jane.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781403964984
Subjects: Lesbians -- Identity; Gays in popular culture; Lesbians -- Social life and customs
Description: "Sapphic Modernities marks the first attempt to examine the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual, and cultural studies, seeking collectively to answer: What range of "sapphisms" circulated during the interwar period, and what forms of cultural production enabled the lesbian's emergence and self-definition?"--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1:; title: Sexual geographies : circulation and mobility.; title: The sapphist in the city : reading lesbian modernist Paris through the frame of sapphic modernity -- Joanne Winning ;; title: Romaine Brooks and the future of sapphic modernity -- Tirza True Latimer ;; title: "The woman who does" : a Melbourne motor garage proprietor -- Georgine Clarsen -- pt. 2:; title: The sapphic body in space : leisure, commodity culture, domesticity.; title: Sapphic smokers and English modernities -- Penny Tinkler ;; title: "Woman's place is the home" : conservative sapphic modernity -- Laura Doan ;; title: Art Deco hybridity, interior design, and sexuality between the wars : two double acts : Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher/Eyre de Lanux and Evelyn Wyld -- Bridget Elliott -- pt. 3:; title: In and out of place : history, displacement, and revision.; title: Impossible objects : waiting for the revolution in Summer will show -- Heather K. Love ;; title: Virginia Woolf's Greek lessons -- Colleen Lamos ;; title: "A sudden orgy of decadence" : writing about sex between women in the interwar popular press -- Alison Oram -- pt. 4:; title: Embracing discursive space : reimagining psychoanalysis and spirituality.; title: Edith Ellis, sapphic idealism, and The lover's calendar (1912) -- Jo-Ann Wallace ;; title: Séances and slander : Radclyffe Hall in 1920 -- Jodie Medd ;; title: Telling it straight : the rhetorics of conversion in Elizabeth Bowen's The hotel and Freud's Psychogenesis -- Petra Rau ;; title: Mary Butts's "fanatical pédérastie" : queer urban life in 1920s London and Paris-- Jane Garrity.