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Book 2010

Sapphic Modernities

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Published
2010
  • Social life and customs
  • Gays in popular culture
  • Lesbians
  • Identity
  • Gays, social life and customs
  • Lesbians in literature
  • Lesbians--identity
  • Lesbiennes--identité

"Sapphic Modernities marks the first attempt to examine the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual, and cultural studies, seeking collectively to answer: What range of "sapphisms" circulated during the interwar period, and what forms of cultural production enabled the lesbian's emergence and self-definition?"--BOOK JACKET