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Sapphic modernities

by Laura L. Doan, Jane Garrity

Social life and customsGays in popular cultureLesbiansIdentityGays, social life and customsLesbians in literatureLesbians--identityLesbians--social life and customs

"Sapphic Modernities marks the first attempt to examine the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual, and cultural studies, seeking collectively to answer: What range of "sapphisms" circulated during the interwar period, and what forms of cultural production enabled the lesbian's emergence and self-definition?"--BOOK JACKET

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