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Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture
Laura Doan
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Description for Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture
Paperback. An in-depth study of early 20th century social conditions and cultural trends in Britain that constructed the popular image of the "modern lesbian" Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning ... Read more
The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies
Condition
New
Weight
483g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231110075
SKU
V9780231110075
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About Laura Doan
Laura Doan is professor of English at SUNY Geneseo. She has edited The Lesbian Postmodern (Columbia) as well as, with Lucy Bland, Sexology in Culture: Labeling Bodies and Desires and Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science.
Reviews for Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture
A fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society.
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