Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present
- Title
- Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present
- Description
- Academic Lillian Faderman (1940-) uses literary and documentary sources to present a history of romantic love between women, one of the first comprehensive studies of its kind. Following initial research on poet Emily Dickinson’s love letters to her sister-in-law Susan Gilbert, Faderman expanded her scope to consider a period of five hundred years and the lives of many women (including those featured in the ‘Scotch Verdict’ case explored in another Faderman work seized during the raids). The book describes how societal attitudes to love between women moved from tolerance (albeit not to women who dressed as men), to prejudice and eventually, to liberatory lesbian feminism. The book, dedicated to Faderman’s partner Phyllis Irwin, is shown here in the UK edition, although it is likely to have been the US William Morrow edition that was seized from Gay’s The Word.
- Creator
- Lillian Faderman (1940-)
- Location
- London (England)
- Publisher
- Junction Books
- Date
- 1981
- Tags
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Lesbian Literature
- Lesbian Relationships
- Lesbians
- LGBTQ+ Literature
- Romantic Friendships
- William Morrow And Company
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