A lesbian history of Britain : love and sex between women since 1500 / Rebecca Jennings.

  • Jennings, Rebecca (Gender historian)
Date:
2007
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Greenwood World Pub., 2007.

Physical description

xix, 227 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Invisibility or cultural renaissance? same-sex desire, 1500-1800 -- Cross-dressing and female husbands, 1600-1800 -- Romantic friendship, 1700-1900 -- 'New women', 1850-1900 -- Sexology and the science of sex, 1880s-1920s -- Sapphism and the First World War, 1914-1918 -- Identity crisis? the emergence of the modern lesbian, 1918-1939 -- Lesbian bars, 1920s-1970s -- Lesbian social organisations, 1960s-1970s -- The politics of lesbianism, 1970-2000.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPO.41
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781846450075
  • 1846450071