Love between women : early Christian responses to female homoeroticism / Bernadette J. Brooten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooten, Bernadette J.

Series:

The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. N.T. Romans I, 18-32--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. N.T. Romans I, 18-32--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Lesbianism--Biblical teaching.

Lesbianism.

Lesbianism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Lesbianism--Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 412 p)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and establishes that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of love between women. "An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible."-Mary Rose D'Angelo, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review "[Brooten's] convincing analysis . . . not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the past, but it should also shape the way in which that past, particularly the early Christian texts with their immense normative weight, will be used for the future."-Anne L. Clark, Journal of Lesbian Studies "Love Between Women gives contemporary debates on sexuality a carefully delineated past. It boldly insists upon a different future, one informed by history but not tyrannized by it."-Susan Ackerman, Lambda Book Report "Fascinating, provocative and lucid. . . . Brooten has made a fundamental contribution to women's and gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and classics."-Elizabeth A. Castelli, Women's Review of Books Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Studies Book, 1997

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Technical Terms, Short Titles, and keys to Symbols

1. Introduction

2. Introduction: Of Sappho, Woman -Woman Marriage, and the Ways of the Egyptians

3. "Inflame Her Liver with Love": Greek Erotic Spells from Egypt

4. Predetermined Erotic Orientations: Astrological Texts

5. Women with Masculine Desires: Medical Treatments

6. Unnatural Love: Classifying Dreams

Part Two: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism

7. Introduction: Of British Schoolteachers and Romans

8. Paul's Letter to the Romans: Interpretive Frameworks and Female Homoeroticism

9. Romans 1: 18-32: A Commentary

10. Intertextual Echoes in Romans 1: 18-32

11. Tortures in Hell: Early Church Fathers on Female Homoeroticism

12. Conclusion

Appendix: Select Annotated Bibliography on Romans 1 : 26f and the New Testament and Homosexuality Generally

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors

Index of Premodern Sources

Index of Ancient Terms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612069635

9781282069633

1282069632

9780226075938

0226075931

OCLC:

370353487