Surpassing the Love of Men
Subtitle: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
By: Lillian Faderman.
Edition: 1st Morrow Quill paperback ed.
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Lesbianism -- History; Lesbians -- Psychology; Love -- History; Lesbians in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 15; label: Part I
title: The sixteenth through eighteenth centuries; label: A
title: Lesbianism in a phallocentric universe
pagenum: 21; label: 1
title: Lesbianism and the libertines
pagenum: 23; label: 2
title: What do women do?
pagenum: 31; label: 3
title: Eighteenth-century fantasy and the lesbian image
pagenum: 38; label: 4
title: Transvestism : persecution and impunity
pagenum: 47; label: B
title: The enshrinement of romantic friendship
pagenum: 63; label: 1
title: The revival of same-sex love : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
pagenum: 65; label: 2
title: The "fashion" of romantic friendship in the eighteenth century
pagenum: 74; label: 3
title: The battle of the sexes
pagenum: 85; label: 4
title: Romantic friendship in eighteenth-century literature
pagenum: 103; label: 5
title: Romantic friendship in eighteenth-century life
pagenum: 119; label: Part II
title: The nineteenth century
pagenum: |; label: A
title: Loving friends
pagenum: 145; label: 1
title: The asexual woman
pagenum: 147; label: 2
title: Kindred spirits
pagenum: 157; label: 3
title: New women
pagenum: 178; label: 4
title: Boston marriage
pagenum: 190; label: 5
title: Love and "women who live by their brains"
pagenum: 204; label: B
title: The reaction
pagenum: 231; label: 1
title: The rise of antifeminism
pagenum: 233; label: 2
title: The contributions of the sexologists
pagenum: 239; label: 3
title: Lesbian exoticism
pagenum: 254; label: 4
title: Lesbian evil
pagenum: 277; label: Part III
title: The twentieth century
pagenum: |; label: A
title: Sophistication
pagenum: 295; label: 1
title: The last breath of innocence
pagenum: 297; label: 2
title: The spread of medical "knowledge"
pagenum: 314; label: 3
title: Keeping women down
pagenum: 332; label: 4
title: Fiction as a weapon
pagenum: 341; label: 5
title: Internalization and rebellion
pagenum: 357; label: B
title: When it changed
pagenum: 375; label: 1
title: The rise of lesbian-feminism
pagenum: 377; label: 2
title: Writing lesbian
pagenum: 392; label: 3
title: Romantic friendship and lesbian love
pagenum: 411; title: Notes
pagenum: 417; title: Index
pagenum: 481