Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism
Bernadette J. Brooten examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, from magical spells and medical texts to astrological horoscopes, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and discusses the surgical procedure of clitoridectomy as a method of controlling female homoeroticism. She incontrovertibly establishes the fact that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread...
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Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and establishes that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of love between women."An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible."—Mary Rose D'Angelo, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review"[Brooten's] convincing analysis . . . not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the past, but it should also shape the way in which that past, particularly the early Christian texts with their immense normative weight, will be used for the future."—Anne L. Clark, Journal of Lesbian Studies"Love Between Women gives contemporary debates on sexuality a carefully delineated past. It boldly insists upon a different future, one informed by history but not tyrannized by it."—Susan Ackerman, Lambda Book Report"Fascinating, provocative and lucid. . . . Brooten has made a fundamental contribution to women's and gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and classics."—Elizabeth A. Castelli, Women's Review of BooksWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Studies Book, 1997 Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review - Mary Rose D'Angelo An extraordinary accomplishment...A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and Technical Terms, Short Titles, and Keys to Symbols1Introduction12Introduction: Of Sappho, Woman-Woman Marriage, and the Ways of the Egyptians293"Inflame Her Liver with Love": Greek Erotic Spells from Egypt734Predetermined Erotic Orientations: Astrological Texts1155Women with Masculine Desires: Medical Treatments1436Unnatural Love: Classifying Dreams1757Introduction: Of British Schoolteachers and Romans1898Paul's Letter to the Romans: Interpretive Frameworks and Female Homoeroticism1959Romans 1:18-32: A Commentary21510Intertextual Echoes in Romans 1:18-3226711Tortures in Hell: Early Church Fathers on Female Homoeroticism30312Conclusion359Select Annotated Bibliography on Roman 1:26f and the New Testament and Homosexuality Generally363Indexes373
\ Mary Rose D'AngeloAn extraordinary accomplishment...A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible.\ — Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\ \
