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An in-depth study of early 20th century social conditions and cultural trends in Britain that constructed the popular image of the "modern lesbian"

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A fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society. -- Juliet Sarkessian Lambda Book Report

Table of Contents
Introduction: "It's Hard to Tell Them Apart Today" 1 The Mythic Moral Panic: Radclyffe Hall and the New Genealogy 2 "That Nameless Vice Between Women": Lesbianism and the Law 3 Outraging the Decencies of Nature? Uniformed Female Bodies 4 Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s 5 Lesbian Writers and Sexual Science: A Passage to Modernity? 6 Portrait of a Sapphist? Fixing the Frame of Reference

Fashioning Sapphism

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/01/2001
      ISBN13: 9780231110075, 978-0231110075
      ISBN10: 0231110073
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      Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An in-depth study of early 20th century social conditions and cultural trends in Britain that constructed the popular image of the "modern lesbian"

      Trade Review
      A fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society. -- Juliet Sarkessian Lambda Book Report

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: "It's Hard to Tell Them Apart Today" 1 The Mythic Moral Panic: Radclyffe Hall and the New Genealogy 2 "That Nameless Vice Between Women": Lesbianism and the Law 3 Outraging the Decencies of Nature? Uniformed Female Bodies 4 Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s 5 Lesbian Writers and Sexual Science: A Passage to Modernity? 6 Portrait of a Sapphist? Fixing the Frame of Reference

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