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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giffney, Noreen.

Sauer, Michelle M., 1972-

Watt, Diane, 1965-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Middle Ages

The New Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--History.

Lesbians.

Homosexuality--History.

Homosexuality.

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 236 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780230616769

0230616763

OCLC:

515439379