Passions Between Women
$54.51
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2014
Summary
Passions Between Women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century.Far from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women in this period was a subject of confusion and contradiction: she could be put in a freak show as a ‘hermaphrodite’, denounced as a ‘tribade’ or ‘lesbian’, revered as a ‘romantic friend’, jailed as a ‘female husband’ or gossiped about as a ‘woman-lover’, ‘tommy’ or ‘Sapphis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447279464 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447279468 |
| Author: | Emma Donoghue |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Bello |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 735g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Controversial, erotic and radical, Emma Donoghue’s lesbian voyage of exploration outlines an astonishing spectrum of gender rebellion which creates a new map of eighteenth-century sexual territories and identities. – Patricia Duncker, author of Sophie and the Sibyl
About The Author
Emma Donoghue
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge, England, before moving to Canada’s London, Ontario. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (The Wonder, Slammerkin, Life Mask, The Sealed Letter) to the contemporary (Akin, Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes; her screen adaptation, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, was nominated for four Academy Awards.
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