Surpassing the Love of Men

Autor*innen

• Lillian Faderman

Parameter

• Feminismus
• Historisches Thema
• LGBTQ+ Literatur
• Sachliteratur
• Sexualität & Intimität

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Drawing on a rich variety of sources – some never before published – Lillian Faderman has constructed a fascinating cultural history of women’s passionate friendships with each other. Literature – ranging from Casanova and Henry James to Ladies’ Home Journal and Adrienne Rich – trial records, love letters, pornography, and the proclamations of “experts” across the centuries vividly illustrate the changing status and patterns of romantic friendship. Faderman explores the elusive relation between female same-sex love and the continually shifting theories of female sexuality. She shows, too, how nascent feminists values have always played a role in women’s passions for each other and in men’s reactions to them, from ridicule to admiration to revulsion. Surpassing the Love of Men is a quietly revolutionary book that brings together forgotten and ignored strands of history in an unexpected new synthesis. For some it will excite intense controversy. But for many readers it will awaken a heretofore unrecognized perception of its rightness. No one who reads it – man or woman – will finish it with his or her sensibilities unchanged.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• Einband: Paperback