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Sapphic Modernities

Sexuality, Women and National Culture

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  • © 2006

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  1. Laura Doan
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Laura Doan, Jane Garrity
      Pages 1-13

  3. Sexual Geographies: Circulation and Mobility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Sapphist in the City: Lesbian Modernist Paris and Sapphic Modernity

      • Joanne Winning
      Pages 17-33

    3. Romaine Brooks and the Future of Sapphic Modernity

      • Tirza True Latimer
      Pages 35-54

    4. “The Woman Who Does”: A Melbourne Motor Garage Proprietor

      • Georgine Clarsen
      Pages 55-71

  5. In and Out of Place: History, Displacement, and Revision

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Impossible Objects: Waiting for the Revolution in Summer Will Show

      • Heather K. Love
      Pages 133-147

    3. Virginia Woolf’s Greek Lessons

      • Colleen Lamos
      Pages 149-164

    4. “A Sudden Orgy of Decadence”: Writing about Sex between Women in the Interwar Popular Press

      • Alison Oram
      Pages 165-180

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 253-261
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About this book

An examination of the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual and cultural studies, this book shows how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigured and redefined citizenship in the early decades of the twentieth century.

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'This project is shrewdly conceived, comprehensive in its ambition, and representative of the most innovative work going on today at the intersection of sexuality and modernity studies....This book offers us new perspectives on some of the classic questions and figures characterizing the discourse on lesbians and modernity....This is a great project.' - Jean Walton, Professor of English, University of Rhode Island, Author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference (2001)

About the authors

LAURA DOAN is Professor of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. She is author of Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern Lesbian Culture (2001) and editor of several collections on the history of sexuality and lesbian studies.

JANE GARRITY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary (2003).

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