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The Lesbian Premodern

  • Editors
  • Noreen Giffney
  • Michelle M. Sauer
  • Diane Watt
Book

Part of the The New Middle Ages book series (TNMA)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction: The Lesbian Premodern

    1. Introduction: The Lesbian Premodern
      Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, Diane Watt
      Pages 1-17

  3. Theories and Historiographies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography
      Valerie Traub
      Pages 21-34
    3. A “Wrangling Parliament”: Terminology and Audience in Medieval European Literary Studies and Lesbian Studies
      Anne Laskaya
      Pages 35-47
    4. Lesbian History and Erotic Reading
      Lara Farina
      Pages 49-60
    5. The Queer Time of the Lesbian Premodern
      Carla Freccero
      Pages 61-73
    6. “Virgins” and “Not-Women”: Dissident Gender Positions
      Theodora A. Jankowski
      Pages 75-89

  4. Readings and Histories

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 91-91
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    2. Virgin Desires: Reading a Homoerotics of Female Monastic Community
      Lisa M. C. Weston
      Pages 93-104
    3. Medieval Barbie Dolls: Femme Figures in Ascetic Collections
      Anna Kłosowska
      Pages 105-117
    4. Naming Love: The God Kama, The Goddess Ganga, and the Child of Two Women
      Ruth Vanita
      Pages 119-130
    5. Remembering Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge
      Judith M. Bennett
      Pages 131-143
    6. Toward a Philology of the Premodern Lesbian
      Helmut Puff
      Pages 145-157

  5. Encounters With the Lesbian Premodern

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 159-159
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    2. Lesbian Time
      Heike Bauer
      Pages 161-169
    3. A Usable Past?
      Lillian Faderman
      Pages 171-178
    4. Sacramentality and the Lesbian Premodern
      Elizabeth Freeman
      Pages 179-186
    5. Necessity is the Invention of Lesbians
      Linda Garber
      Pages 187-192
    6. Lesbian Ghosts
      Martha Vicinus
      Pages 193-201
    7. Afterword: The Lesbian Premodern Meets the Lesbian Postmodern
      Robyn Wiegman
      Pages 203-212
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 213-236
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About this book

Introduction

Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation to premodern cultures.

Keywords

Europe gender historiography history premodern women

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