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Summary:

When has using the term "lesbian" not been considered an anachronistic gesture? This question lies at the heart of this important new collection of essays. The Lesbian Premodern engages key scholars in lesbian studies and queer theory in an innovative conversation in print. Transgressing traditional period boundaries, The Lesbian Premodern challenges those interested primarily in contemporary lesbian theory, history and literature to pay full attention to significant and often overlooked theoretical, empirical and textual work on female same-sex desire and identity in premodern cultures. This.

Table of Contents:

• Theories and historiographies
• The present future of lesbian historiography / Valerie Traub
• A wrangling parliament? : terminology and audience in medieval European literary studies and lesbian studies / Anne Laskaya
• Lesbian history and erotic reading / Lara Farina
• The queer time of the lesbian premodern / Carla Freccero
• "Virgins" and "not women" : dissident gender positions / Theodora Jankowski
• Readings and histories
• Virgin desires : reading a homoerotics of female monastic community / Lisa M.C. Weston
• Medieval Barbie dolls : femme fatales in ascetic collections / Anna Klosowska
• Naming love : the god Kama, the goddess Ganga, and the child of two women / Ruth Vanita
• Remembering Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge / Judith M. Bennett
• Towards a philology of the premodern lesbian / Helmut Puff
• Encounters with the lesbian premodern
• Lesbian time / Heike Bauer
• A usable past? / Lillian Faderman
• Sacramentality and the lesbian premodern / Elizabeth Freeman
• Invention is the necessity of lesbians / Linda Garber
• Lesbian ghosts / Martha Vicinus.

Contributors:

Giffney, Noreen

Sauer, Michelle M., 1972-

Watt, Diane, 1965-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Lesbian premodern (1st ed.; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 — ISBN 9780230616769; LCCN 2010025623; OCLC Number 515439379)

Related Series:

New Middle Ages

Subjects:

Lesbians — History

Homosexuality — History

Lesbians

Homosexuality

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 236 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ75.5 .L444 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780230117198 (electronic bk.)
0230117198 (electronic bk.)
9780230616769 [Invalid]
0230616763 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

707078821

Other Control Numbers:

EBC665884 (source: MiAaPQ)