{"product_id":"passions-between-women-9781447279464","title":"Passions Between Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePassions Between Women\u003c\/i\u003e looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women in this period was a subject of confusion and contradiction: she could be put in a freak show as a 'hermaphrodite', denounced as a 'tribade' or 'lesbian', revered as a 'romantic friend', jailed as a 'female husband' or gossiped about as a 'woman-lover', 'tommy' or 'Sapphist'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an examination of a wealth of new medical, legal and erotic source material, together with re-readings of classics of English literature, Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e, uncovers the astonishing range of lesbian and bisexual identities described in British texts between 1668 and 1801. Female pirates and spiritual mentors, chambermaids and queens, poets and prostitutes, cou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eControversial, erotic and radical, Emma Donoghue's lesbian voyage of exploration outlines an astonishing spectrum of gender rebellion which creates a new map of eighteenth-century sexual territories and identities. -- Patricia Duncker, author of\u003ci\u003e Sophie and the Sibyl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769777586519,"sku":"9781447279464","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447279464.jpg?v=1758722573","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/passions-between-women-9781447279464","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}