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"Intimate Women offers a look at the erotic friendships of educated English and American women over a 150-year period, culminating in the 1928 publication of The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall's scandalous novel of lesbian love. Martha Vicinus explores all-female communities, husband-wife couples, liaisons between younger and older women, female rakes, and mother-daughter affection. Women, she reveals, drew upon a rich religious vocabulary to describe elusive and complex erotic feelings." "Vicinus also considers the nineteenth-century roots of such contemporary issues as homosexual self-hatred, female masculinity, and sadomasochistic desire. Drawing upon diaries letters, and other archival sources, she brings to life a variety of well known and historically less recognized women, ranging from the predatory Ann Lister, who documented her sexual activities in code, to Mary Benson, the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the coterie of wealthy Anglo-American lesbians living in Paris."--BOOK JACKET.
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Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928
May 1, 2006, University Of Chicago Press
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Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928
June 30, 2004, University Of Chicago Press
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"In the late eighteenth century, a dowry-less orphan and an aging youngest daughter startled their respective families by declaring their determination to live together."
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