Intimate friends : women who loved women, 1778-1928 / Martha Vicinus.
'Intimate Friends' offers a study of the erotic friendships of educated English and American women in the century and a half up to the publication of Radclyffe Hall's novel 'The Well of Loneliness'. Vicinus also considers the roots of social phenomena such as homosexual self...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- "A scheme of romantic friendship" : love and same-sex marriage
- "Emancipated females" : the Rome community
- "They venture to share the same bed" : possible impossibilities
- "The gift of love" : religion and lesbian love
- "A strenuous pleasure" : daughter-mother love
- "Passion immense and unrestrained" : destructive desires
- "Familiar misquotation" : Sapphic cross-dressing
- "A love of domination" : the mannish invert and sexual danger
- Beyond the family metaphor.