""Between Women" literally shifts our understanding of how the
history of sexuality and gender norms ought to be written. Sharon
Marcus's groundbreaking text finally offers us a framework for
thinking about the social and sexual bonds among women and their
centrality to the history of gender, sexuality, marriage, and the
family. Working with a wide array of texts, Marcus brilliantly
shows how literary studies can enter into both social history and
contemporary politics. Her final reflections on gay and lesbian
marriage make clear the high stakes and pressing conceptual
implications for our time of this kind of critical and capacious
work."--Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
"This magnificent and impressive book offers us what Foucault
would have called a 'history of the present': not only does it
completely transform our perception of the past, but, in so doing,
it also newly illuminates the debates and struggles that are ours,
today."--Didier Eribon, author of "Michel Foucault" and "Insult and
the Making of the Gay Self"
""Between Women" significantly revises conventional wisdom about
Victorian female friendships, desire, and marriage. To tell this
story, Marcus has studied women's life writings, canonical fiction,
fashion magazines, doll stories, and anthropological texts of the
period. The result is intellectually stunning and wonderfully
entertaining."--Judith R. Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
""Between Women" is not only a first-rate Victorianist study, it
is also the most original work on gender and sexuality to appear in
years--one that promises to shake up feminist theory and queer
theory in all the right ways. A densely researched book,
asacademically sound as it is intellectually thrilling."--Diana
Fuss, Princeton University
"This is a superb work of scholarship, beautifully conceived and
written, that will change our views of Victorian women, men,
society, and culture. Sharon Marcus's argument that the Victorians
viewed intense and passionate female relationships as a vital
precursor and stimulus for heterosexual marriage is persuasive.
What she has accomplished is the most difficult of intellectual
projects: seeing what is in plain sight and yet has not been
noticed because of our cultural preconceptions, and then using her
findings to recast an entire field."--Bonnie S. Anderson, City
University of New York
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