Lesbian Historic Motif Project: #87 Bruster 1993 “Female-Female Eroticism and...
Like many articles of this era, Bruster begins by explaining that (and why) there is a dearth of academic investigation into the topic of female homoeroticism in [insert topic here]. He asserts that...
View ArticleLesbian Historic Motif Project: #100h Donoghue 1996 - Passions Between Women...
There are many aspects of the history of homosexuality where an assumption of parallelism between the experiences of men and women leads to erroneous conclusions about what did and didn’t exist. For...
View ArticleLHMP #112b Castle 2003 The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology...
The themes of this set of selections might be: the re-discovery of Sappho, men lamenting that women who love each other aren’t available for them, and the use of queer-baiting for socio-political...
View ArticleLHMP #168 Jankowski 2011 ’Virgins’ and ‘Not-women’: Dissident Gender Positions
Jankowski begins with lesbian imagery in Marvell’s Upon Appleton House [note: a 17th century work exploring family history that includes tropes of predatory lesbians in convents] and its challenge to...
View ArticleLesbian Historic Motif Project: #87 Bruster 1993 “Female-Female Eroticism and...
Like many articles of this era, Bruster begins by explaining that (and why) there is a dearth of academic investigation into the topic of female homoeroticism in [insert topic here]. He asserts that...
View ArticleLesbian Historic Motif Project: #100h Donoghue 1996 - Passions Between Women...
There are many aspects of the history of homosexuality where an assumption of parallelism between the experiences of men and women leads to erroneous conclusions about what did and didn’t exist. For...
View ArticleLHMP #112b Castle 2003 The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology...
The themes of this set of selections might be: the re-discovery of Sappho, men lamenting that women who love each other aren’t available for them, and the use of queer-baiting for socio-political...
View ArticleLHMP #168 Jankowski 2011 ’Virgins’ and ‘Not-women’: Dissident Gender Positions
Jankowski begins with lesbian imagery in Marvell’s Upon Appleton House [note: a 17th century work exploring family history that includes tropes of predatory lesbians in convents] and its challenge to...
View ArticleLHMP #313e Wahl 1999 Invisible Relations Part 3 Chapter 5
Turning from how Phillips was sanitized of any suggestion of sexual impropriety Wahl now turns to how women-centered institutions, whether salons, schools, theaters, and on to less voluntary spaces...
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