Drawing on a wide range of diverse source material this groundbreaking critical anthology discusses the lives of lesbians from the late eighteenth century to the 1970s.
Autorentext
Alison Oram is Reader in Women's Studies at University College Northampton.,
Annmarie Turnbull works for a national charity.
Zusammenfassung
This groundbreaking critical anthology gathers together a wide range of primary source material on lesbian lives in the past. The material here is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including court records, newspaper reports, literary sources, writings on lesbianism from psychologists, doctors, anthropologists, as well as personal letters and journals.The sources are arranged into thematic chapters, covering topics such as archetypes of lesbians - cross-dressing women and romantic friends, the making of lesbianism in culture, professional discourse on lesbians, public perceptions of lesbianism and women's own experiences.This book will be a milestone in the publishing of lesbian history, and is set to provoke the impetus for fresh research.
Inhalt
Introduction; Part I Archetypes of Love between Women; Chapter 1 Cross-Dressing Women; Chapter 2 Romantic Friends and Lesbian Couples; Part II Professional Commentaries; Chapter 3 Medicine; Chapter 4 Education; Chapter 5 Law; Part III Making Lesbianism in Culture; Chapter 6 The Well of Loneliness; Chapter 7 Social Perceptions; Chapter 8 Identities and Networks;
Titel
The Lesbian History Sourcebook
Untertitel
Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780-1970
Autor
EAN
9781136157950
ISBN
978-1-136-15795-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
18.10.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.9 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch
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