Passions Between Women
28 August 2014Imprint: Bello
Synopsis
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'...
Details
28 August 2014360 pages
9781447279464Imprint: Bello
Reviews
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
