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Sapphistries : a global history of love between women / Leila J. Rupp

Author
Rupp, Leila J., 1950-
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Introduction -- In the beginning (40,000-1200 BCE) -- In ancient worlds (3500 BCE-800 CE) -- In unlikely places(500 BCE-1600 CE) -- In plain sight (1100-1900) -- Finding each other (1600-1900) -- What's in a name? (1890-1930) -- In public (1920-1980) -- A world of difference (1980 - present) -- Conclusion.
Summary
"From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place." "Leila Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other em the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women's desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing a uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN
9780814775929 (cl : alk. paper)
0814775926 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814776445
0814776442
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Brandywine copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2009.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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