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A lesbian history of Britain : love and sex between women since 1500 / Rebecca Jennings.
Van Pelt Library HQ75.6.G7 J46 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jennings, Rebecca.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbianism--Great Britain--History.
- Lesbianism.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 227 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; Westport, Conn. : Greenwood World Pub., 2007.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781846450075
- 1846450071
- OCLC:
- 144570842
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