Surpassing The Love Of Men: Romantic Friendship And Love Between Women From The Renaissance To The Present by Lillian Faderman

Surpassing The Love Of Men: Romantic Friendship And Love Between Women From The Renaissance To The Present

Lillian Faderman

496 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ informative slow-paced
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Faderman takes a look at the traditional view of lesbianism, drawing on love letters, trial records, pornography and the 'experts' proclamations, and shows how shifting theories of female sexuality makes some things acceptable and others taboo.

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