Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

by Lillian Faderman

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Faderman takes a look at the traditional view of lesbianism, drawing on love letters, trial records, pornography and the 'experts' proclamations, and shows how shifting theories of female sexuality makes some things acceptable and others taboo.
  • ISBN10 0688133304
  • ISBN13 9780688133306
  • Publish Date 17 June 1998 (first published 1 July 1985)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 12 December 2008
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperCollins
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 496
  • Language English