The lesbian premodern / edited by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

xx, 236 pages ; 22 cm.

1st ed.

Theories and historiographies -- The present future of lesbian historiography / Valerie Traub -- A wrangling parliament? : terminology and audience in medieval European literary studies and lesbian studies / Anne Laskaya -- Lesbian history and erotic reading / Lara Farina -- The queer time of the lesbian premodern / Carla Freccero -- "Virgins" and "not women" : dissident gender positions / Theodora Jankowski -- Readings and histories -- Virgin desires : reading a homoerotics of female monastic community / Lisa M.C. Weston -- Medieval Barbie dolls : femme fatales in ascetic collections / Anna Klosowska -- Naming love : the god Kama, the goddess Ganga, and the child of two women / Ruth Vanita -- Remembering Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge / Judith M. Bennett -- Towards a philology of the premodern lesbian / Helmut Puff -- Encounters with the lesbian premodern -- Lesbian time / Heike Bauer -- A usable past? / Lillian Faderman -- Sacramentality and the lesbian premodern / Elizabeth Freeman -- Invention is the necessity of lesbians / Linda Garber -- Lesbian ghosts / Martha Vicinus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.