Invisible Relations

Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment

Автор: Elizabeth Susan Wahl

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Издател: Stanford University Press

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This book explores the ambivalent and often contradictory ways in which English and French writers o...

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Автор

Elizabeth Susan Wahl

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1999

страници

376

EAN

9780804736503

ISBN

0804736502

Enbook ID

04716995

Издател

Stanford University Press

Теглоt

576

Размери

152 x 229 x 25

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This book explores the ambivalent and often contradictory ways in which English and French writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represented relations of intimacy between women. These representations included both a sexualized model of the lesbian tribade and an idealized model that portrayed female friendship as devoid of sexual expression. Although these two perceptions of female intimacy may seem mutually exclusive, the author argues that both operate as defining parameters, not only for literary representations of relations between women but also for cultural responses to those institutions in which women could gather salon, convent, theater, or brothel. Despite increasing evidence of female homosocial and homosexual bonds during this period, representations of female intimacy have remained largely invisible within critical discourse. They are overshadowed either by a dominant heterosexual understanding of such institutions as marriage or prostitution or by historical patterns of male homosexual behavior, to which they often do not correspond. By broadening the concept of intimacy to include relations between women that may evade or subvert the boundaries of compulsory heterosexuality, the author argues, one can locate a duality of polite and eroticized models of female intimacy in the cultural discourses of both France and England.

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