The lesbian premodern / edited by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt.

Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011.
Descriptionxx, 236 pages : illustrations.
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Subjects
Lesbians--History.
Homosexuality--History.

Other author/creatorGiffney, Noreen.
Other author/creatorSauer, Michelle M., 1972-
Other author/creatorWatt, Diane, 1965-
Other author/creatorProQuest (Firm)
SeriesNew Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) ^A688344
Contents Theories and historiographies -- The present future of lesbian historiography / Valerie Traub -- A wrangling parliament? : terminology and audience in medieval European literary studies and lesbian studies / Anne Laskaya -- Lesbian history and erotic reading / Lara Farina -- The queer time of the lesbian premodern / Carla Freccero -- "Virgins" and "not women" : dissident gender positions / Theodora Jankowski -- Readings and histories -- Virgin desires : reading a homoerotics of female monastic community / Lisa M.C. Weston -- Medieval Barbie dolls : femme fatales in ascetic collections / Anna Klosowska -- Naming love : the god Kama, the goddess Ganga, and the child of two women / Ruth Vanita -- Remembering Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge / Judith M. Bennett -- Towards a philology of the premodern lesbian / Helmut Puff -- Encounters with the lesbian premodern -- Lesbian time / Heike Bauer -- A usable past? / Lillian Faderman -- Sacramentality and the lesbian premodern / Elizabeth Freeman -- Invention is the necessity of lesbians / Linda Garber -- Lesbian ghosts / Martha Vicinus.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010025623