A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place. Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women’s desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other. Giving voice to words from the mouths and pens of women, and from men’s prohibitions, reports, literature, art, imaginings, pornography, and court cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to imagine possibilities when there is no historical evidence. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780814777268 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: New York University Press Publication Date: 01-28-2011 Pages: 314 Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) Series: Intersections #15About the Author Leila J. Rupp is Professor of Feminist Studies and Associate Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the Universityof California, Santa Barbara. She is author of many books, including Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women (NYU Press, 2009) and A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Sexuality in America (Universityfo Chicago Press, 2001).Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface ix 1 Introduction 1 2 In the Beginning (40,000-1200 BCE) 10 3 In Ancient Worlds (3500 BCE-800 CE) 25 4 In Unlikely Places (500 BCE-1600 CE) 42 5 In Plain Sight (1100-1900) 78 6 Finding Each Other (1600-1900) 105 7 What's in a Name? (1890-1930) 142 8 In Public (1920-1980) 161 9 A World of Difference (1960-Present) 203 10 Conclusion 227 Notes 235 References 261 Index 287 About the Author 303
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