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Women Together/Women Apart - Portraits of Lesbian Paris (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Women Together/Women Apart - Portraits of Lesbian Paris (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains
impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth
of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider
an array of visual representations that have been put into
circulation by lesbians themselves over the last six or seven
decades. In the early twentieth century, though, no notion of
lesbianism as a coherent social or cultural identity yet existed.
In Women Together/Women Apart, Tirza True Latimer explores the
revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when
lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual
models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and
allowed them to recognize each other. Flocking to Paris from around
the world, artists and performers such as Romaine Brooks, Claude
Cahun, Marcel Moore, and Suzy Solidor used portraiture to theorize
and visualize a ""new breed"" of feminine subject. The book focuses
on problems of feminine and lesbian self-representation at a time
and place where the rights of women to political, professional,
economic, domestic, and sexual autonomy had yet to be acknowledged
by the law. Under such circumstances, same-sex solidarity and
relative independence from men held important political
implications. Combining gender theory with visual, cultural, and
historical analysis, Latimer draws a vivid picture of the impact of
sexual politics on the cultural life of Paris during this key
period. The book also illuminates the far-reaching consequences of
lesbian portraiture on contemporary constructions of lesbian
identity.
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