Title: Surpassing the Love of Men
Subtitle: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Description: Draws a variety of sources from the writings of Henry James to the Ladies Home Journal to explore 500 years of friendship and love between women and to cast light on shifting female sexuality theories. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Reissue.
Subjects: History, Lesbianism, Love, Psychology, Lesbians in literature, Lesbians, Lesbianism in literature, Female friendship, Homosexuality, Stonewall Book Awards, Women, psychology, Women, history, LGBTQ anthropology, collection:stonewall_book_award=pre-1990_winner