Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation topremodern cultures. NOREEN GIFFNEY Lecturer in Women's Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. . MICHELLE M. SAUER Associate Professor of English and Women Studies at the University of North Dakota, USA. . DIANEWATT Professor of English Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. INDICE: Preface: Lesbian Studies Meets the Premodern; 'K.Lochrie' - Introduction: The Lesbian Premodern; 'N.Giffney, M.M.Sauer '&' D.Watt' - PART I: THEORIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHIES - 'The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography'; 'V.Traub' - ''A Wrangling Parliament': Terminology and Audience in Medieval European Literary Studies and Lesbian Studies'; 'A.Laskaya' - 'Lesbian History and Erotic Reading'; 'L.Farina - ''The Queer Time of the Lesbian Premodern'; 'C.Freccero - '''Virgins' and 'Not Women': Dissident Gender Positions'; 'T.Jankowski - 'PART II: READINGS AND HISTORIES - 'Virgin Desires: Reading a Homoerotics of Female Monastic Community'; 'L.M.C.Weston' - 'Medieval Barbie Dolls: Femme Fatales in Ascetic Collections'; 'A.Klosowska - ''Naming Love: The God Kama,the Goddess Ganga and the Child of Two Women'; 'R.Vanita' - 'Remembering Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge'; 'J.M.Bennett' - 'Towards a Philology of the Premodern Lesbian'; 'H.Puff' - PART III: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LESBIAN PREMODERN - 'Lesbian Time'; 'H.Bauer' - 'A Usable Past?'; 'L.Faderman - ''Sacramentality and the Lesbian Premodern'; 'E.Freeman' - 'Invention is the Necessity of Lesbians'; 'L.Garber - ''Lesbian Ghosts'; 'M.Vicinus - 'Afterword: The Lesbian Premodern Meets the Lesbian Postmodern; 'R.Wiegman ' -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61676-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 11/01/2011
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