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Title Sapphic modernities [electronic resource] : sexuality, women, and national culture / edited by Laura Doan and Jane Garrity.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 261 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. 1: Sexual geographies : circulation and mobility. The sapphist in the city : reading lesbian modernist Paris through the frame of sapphic modernity / Joanne Winning ; Romaine Brooks and the future of sapphic modernity / Tirza True Latimer ; "The woman who does" : a Melbourne motor garage proprietor / Georgine Clarson -- Pt. 2: The sapphic body in space : leisure, commodity culture, domesticity. Sapphic smokers and English modernities / Penny Tinkler ; "Woman's place IS the home" : conservative sapphic modernity / Laura Doan ; Art Deco hybridity, interior design, and sexuality between the wars : two double acts : Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher/Eyre de Lanux and Evelyn Wyld / Bridget Elliott -- Pt. 3: In and out of place : history, displacement, and revision. Impossible objects : waiting for the revolution in Summer will show / Heather K. Love ; Virginia Woolf's Greek lessons / Colleen Lamos ; "A sudden orgy of decadence" : writing about sex between women in the interwar popular press / Alison Oram -- Pt. 4: Embracing discursive space : reimagining psychoanalysis and spirituality. Edith Ellis, sapphic idealism, and The lover's calendar (1912) / Jo-Ann Wallace ; Seances and slander : Radclyffe Hall in 1920 / Jodie Medd ; Telling it straight : the rhetorics of conversion in Elizabeth Bowen's The hotel and Freud's Psychogenesis / Petra Rau ; Mary Butts's "ffanatical pederastie" : queer urban life in 1920s London and Paris / Jane Garrity.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Lesbians -- Identity.
Gays in popular culture.
Lesbians -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Doan, Laura L., 1951-
Garrity, Jane.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 140396498X (alk. paper)
9781403964984

 
    
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