Sapphic Crossings Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature |
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| Author:
| Klein, Ula Lukszo |
| Series title: | Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4551-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2021 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.50 |
Book Description:
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Reveals how various British texts from the eighteenth century associate female cross-dressing with the possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire.
Reveals how various British texts from the eighteenth century associate female cross-dressing with the possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire.