Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture
by Laura Doan
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"The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's 'The Well of Loneliness' (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture. Drawing on extensive new archival research, 'Fashioning Sapphism' locates Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation - thus tracing the emergence of a modern English show more lesbian subculture in the decade after the First World War." -- back cover. show lessTags
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- ...As late as 1928 reports of women who lived in "close companionship" with others of their sex could appear in newspapers with wide circulation without necessarily triggering associations of sin, vice, decadence, pe... (show all)rversion, sickness, or degeneracy. -Introduction
At the end of July 1928 Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, the first "long and very serious novel entirely upon the subject of sexual inversion" according to its author, appeared in bookshops and lending librar... (show all)ies throughout Britain. In a matter of weeks the largely favorable response by sober reviewers was overshadowed by the journalist James Douglas's sensationalizing editorial in the Sunday Express condemning the propagandistic aims of Hall's project and demanding the novel's suppression. -Chapter One, The Mythic Moral Panic: Radclyffe Hall and the New Genealogy - Canonical DDC/MDS
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- HQ75 .G7 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Homosexuality. Lesbianism
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