Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

Type

Book

Authors

Lillian Faderman

ISBN 10

0688133304

ISBN 13

9780688133306

Tags

History, Non-Fiction, Culture, Renaissance, LGBT Studies, Lesbian, Bisexual, North American

Description

A classic of its kind, this fascinating cultural history draws on everything from private correspondence to pornography to explore five hundred years of friendship and love between women.Surpassing the Love of Men throws a new light on shifting theories of female sexuality and the changing status of women over the centuries.

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