Tough love
Subtitle: Amazon encounters in the English Renaissance
By: Kathryn Schwarz.
Series: Series Q
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Amazons in literature; English literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Gender identity in literature; Women soldiers in literature; Sex role in literature; Renaissance -- England; Love in literature
Description: "In Tough Love Kathryn Schwarz takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality during the early modern period. Imagined as embodiments of female masculinity, amazonian figures stimulated both homoerotic and heteroerotic response, and Schwarz shows that their appearance in narratives disrupted assumptions concerning identity, gender, domesticity, and desire".

"Tough Love contributes to the ongoing discussion of gendered identity and sexual desire in the early modern period. It will interest students of queer theory, cultural studies, early modern history, feminism, and literature"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-275) and index.