Early Christianity emerged in a world in which people from various walks of life acknowledged that women could have sexual contact with women.
An edition of Love Between Women
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Love between women
early Christian responses to female homoeroticism
by Bernadette J. Brooten
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Bernadette J. Brooten examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, from magical spells and medical texts to astrological horoscopes, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and discusses the surgical procedure of clitoridectomy as a method of controlling female homoeroticism.
She incontrovertibly establishes the fact that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of sexual love between women. Culling significant information from her sources to illuminate the lives and beliefs of myriad ancient Mediterranean peoples, she gives a tour, at once delightful and distressing, of Roman-world attitudes.
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Bible, Biblical teaching, Christianity, Criticism, interpretation, History, History of doctrines, Lesbianism, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Lesbianism, Love, Lesbians, Histoire des doctrines, Aspect religieux, Critique, interprétation, Lesbische liefde, Romeinse oudheid, Römerbrief 1,18-32, Viewpoint, Christentum, Enseignement biblique, Histoire, Lesbische Liebe, Lesbianisme, Christianisme, Female Homosexuality, Frühchristentum, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. epistles, Homosexuality, religious aspects, christianity, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, LGBTQ history, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, collection:judy_grahn_award=winnerPlaces
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Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism
2009, University of Chicago Press
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Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
November 1, 1998, University Of Chicago Press
in English
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Love between women: early Christian responses to female homoeroticism
1996, University of Chicago Press
in English
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Love between women: early Christian responses to female homoeroticism
1996, University of Chicago Press
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Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and establishes that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of love between women.
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