Sapphistries : A Global History of Love between Women / Leila J. Rupp.
2009
HQ75.5 .R87 2011
Linked e-resources
Linked Resource
Online Access
Details
Title
Sapphistries : A Global History of Love between Women / Leila J. Rupp.
Author
Rupp, Leila J., author.
ISBN
9780814777459
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814777459.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HQ75.5 .R87 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.76/6309
Summary
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.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Series
Intersections ; ; 15
Available in Other Form
print 9780814775929
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
All Resources
Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. In the Beginning (40,000-1200 BCE)
3. In Ancient Worlds
4. In Unlikely Places
5. In Plain Sight
6. Finding Each Other
7. What's in a Name?
8. In Public
9. A World of Difference
10. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. In the Beginning (40,000-1200 BCE)
3. In Ancient Worlds
4. In Unlikely Places
5. In Plain Sight
6. Finding Each Other
7. What's in a Name?
8. In Public
9. A World of Difference
10. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
About the Author