![]() ![]() ![]() PART 1: The Sixteenth to Eighteenth CenturiesĪ. ![]() The Fashion of Romantic Friendship in the Eighteenth Century. Little frightens a conventional women more than to be thought a lesbian that fear, as Professor Faderman brilliantly shows, is used by the male-dominated society to keep women’s power to live freely and to love freely exclusively in male hands. The Revival of Same-Sex Love: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. A classic of its kind, this fascinating cultural history draws on. Surpassing the Love of Men is an important book, above all because it makes us understand what is involved when women choose to love women. Buy a cheap copy of Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic. ![]() Faderman takes a look at the traditional view of lesbianism, drawing on love letters, trial records, pornography and the ‘experts’ proclamations, and shows how shifting theories of female sexuality makes some things acceptable and others taboo. ![]()
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