Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture
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, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian...
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An in-depth study of early 20th century social conditions and cultural trends in Britain that constructed the popular image of the "modern lesbian" Juliet Sarkessian A fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society.
Introduction: ``It's Hard to Tell Them Apart Today''1 The Mythic Moral Panic: Radclyffe Hall and the New Genealogy2 ``That Nameless Vice Between Women'': Lesbianism and the Law3 Outraging the Decencies of Nature? Uniformed Female Bodies4 Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s5 Lesbian Writers and Sexual Science: A Passage to Modernity?6 Portrait of a Sapphist? Fixing the Frame of Reference
\ Lambda Book Report - Juliet Sarkessian\ A fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society.\ \ \ \ \ \ Lambda Book ReportA fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society.\ — Juliet Sarkessian\ \ \ \ Terry CastleLaura Doan has written an elegant, intellectually rich, well-constructed, witty, and marvelously informative book that will add immediately and authoritatively to ongoing conversations about lesbian 'identity´ and the history of female homosexuality in early twentieth century Britain. . . . I ended [this book] quite breathless and exhilarated -and jealous. It´s a great book.\ \ \ \ \ Lucy BlandThis is an exceptional book, which I cannot praise too highly. Its impact will be iconoclastic and far-reaching.\ \ \ \ \ Juliet SarkessianA fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsDoan (affiliation not cited) traces the origins of modern English lesbian culture, paying particular attention to the publication of the novel (1928), which had a lesbian protagonist, and the subsequent obscenity trial of its author, Radclyffe Hall. Other prominent lesbians profiled include the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Sophia Allen; the artist Gluck; and the writer Bryher (Winnifred Ellerman). Individual chapters focus on law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation (including 32 sketches and photographs). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
