Intimate friends : women who loved women, 1778-1928
'Intimate Friends' offers a study of the erotic friendships of educated English and American women in the century and a half up to the publication of Radclyffe Hall's novel 'The Well of Loneliness'. Vicinus also considers the roots of social phenomena such as homosexual self-hatred and female masculinity
History
xxxii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226855639, 9780226855646, 0226855635, 0226855643
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"A scheme of romantic friendship" : love and same-sex marriage
"Emancipated females" : the Rome community
"They venture to share the same bed" : possible impossibilities
"The gift of love" : religion and lesbian love
"A strenuous pleasure" : daughter-mother love
"Passion immense and unrestrained" : destructive desires
"Familiar misquotation" : Sapphic cross-dressing
"A love of domination" : the mannish invert and sexual danger
Beyond the family metaphor