Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian CultureThe highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. |
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Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture Laura Doan Limited preview - 2001 |
Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture Laura Doan No preview available - 2001 |