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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friednship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance - Softcover
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First published in 1981, this feminist classic began modestly as an academic essay on Emily Dickinson's love poems and letters to her future sister-in-law, Sue Gilbert. In her original introduction, Faderman recalled her surprise at finding these records of an erotic attachment between women that showed no evidence of guilt, anxiety, or the need for secrecy. Yet 60 or 70 years after they were written, the original letters had been bowdlerized by a niece of Dickinson's, who clearly found them too shocking for publication. Why, Faderman wondered, was passionate love between women, once almost universally applauded in the Western world, now almost universally condemned? She learned that the love between Dickinson and Gilbert had many precedents, and that it was only in the late 19th century that medical literature and antifeminism combined to rank women who loved women "somewhere," as she puts it bluntly, "between necrophiliacs and those who had sex with chickens." For this new edition, Faderman explains that she has resisted the urge to update her text, hoping that her exploration of romantic friendship, from French libertine literature through the dawn of feminism through the lesbian panic of the 1920s will still serve as "solace and ammunition" for those hoping to find "a usable past." --Regina Marler
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Lillian Faderman is a professor of English at California State University, Fresno, author of several books, and the winner of the 1992 Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian/Gay Anthology. She lives in Fresno, California.
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- PublisherWomen's Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0704339773
- ISBN 13 9780704339774
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. London. The Women's Press Ltd. 1997. Reprint. Soft Covers. Some minor creasing to the rear wrap and faint toning to pages. A classic of its kind, this critically acclaimed cultural history draws on everything from private correspondence to pornography to explore 500 years of friendship and love between women. It throws new light on shifting theories of female sexuality and the changing status of women over the centuries. Faderman takes a look at the traditional view of lesbianism, drawing on love letters, trial records, pornography and the 'experts' proclamations, and shows how shifting theories of female sexuality makes some things acceptable and others taboo. Seller Inventory # FEB22030
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