Invisible Relations

Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment

Autor: Elizabeth Susan Wahl

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

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Autor

Elizabeth Susan Wahl

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1999

Pagini

376

EAN

9780804729567

ISBN

0804729565

Enbook ID

04716620

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

702

Dimensiuni

152 x 152 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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