Title: Tough love
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.
Subjects: Amazons in literature, Women soldiers in literature, English literature, Love in literature, Male authors, History and criticism, Sex role in literature, Renaissance, Women and literature, Gender identity in literature, History, Women in literature, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Renaissance, england
Places: England
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, 16th century