Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women and National Culture

An examination of the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual and cultural studies, this book shows how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigured and redefined citizenship in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Author: L. Doan
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/20/2007
Pages: 261
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.36h x 6.00w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781403964984

About the Author
LAURA DOAN is Professor of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. She is author of Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern Lesbian Culture (2001) and editor of several collections on the history of sexuality and lesbian studies.

JANE GARRITY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary (2003).

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