Sapphic modernities

By Laura L. Doan, Jane Garrity

Subjects: Lesbians--social life and customs, Hq75.5 .s27 2006, Lesbiennes--identité, Lesbians--identity, Social science--lesbian studies, Gays, social life and customs, Identity, Lesbiennes--mœurs et coutumes, 306.76/63, Gays in popular culture, Social life and customs, Homosexuels dans la culture populaire, Lesbians in literature, Lesbians

Description: "Sapphic Modernities marks the first attempt to examine the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual, and cultural studies, seeking collectively to answer: What range of "sapphisms" circulated during the interwar period, and what forms of cultural production enabled the lesbian's emergence and self-definition?"--BOOK JACKET