INVISIBLE RELATIONS by Wahl, Elizabeth Susan ISBN 0804736502
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This work explores the ambivalent and contradictory ways in which English and French writers of the 17th and 18th centuries represented relations of intimacy between women. These representations included both a sexualized model and an idealized model.
This book explores the ambivalent and often contradictory ways in which English and French writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represented relations of intimacy between women. These representations included both a sexualized model of the 'lesbian' tribade and an 'idealized' model that portrayed female friendship as devoid of sexual expression. Despite increasing evidence of female homosocial and homosexual bonds during this period, representations of female intimacy have remained largely invisible within critical discourse. They are overshadowed either by a dominant heterosexual understanding of such institutions as marriage or prostitution or by historical patterns of male homosexual behavior. By analyzing a variety of legal, medical, and historical materials, as well as literary texts - by Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, Madeleine de Scudery, Catherine Descartes, Delarivier Manley, and John Cleland - the author outlines a combination of cultural and historical circumstances that contributed to increasing consciousness about female homosexuality in England and France.
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[edit] Title
INVISIBLE RELATIONS
[edit] Author
Wahl, Elizabeth Susan
[edit] ISBN
0804736502
[edit] Published
30/04/1999
[edit] Publisher
Stanford University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
17.95 (GBP)
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