A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which
diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time
and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in
contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the
globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In
beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the
multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female
same-sex sexuality across time and place. Leila J. Rupp reveals
how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility
of love between women has been known, even when it is feared,
ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of
convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women
beginning to find each other on the streets of London and
Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories
of Shanghai. We find women's desire and love for women meeting the
light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars
and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we
encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as
transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local
understandings of how two women might love each other. Giving voice
to words from the mouths and pens of women, and from men's
prohibitions, reports, literature, art, imaginings, pornography,
and court cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to imagine
possibilities when there is no historical evidence. Sapphistries
combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research,
providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of
desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the
beginning of time to the present.
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