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Love between women [electronic resource] : early Christian responses to female homoeroticism / Bernadette J. Brooten.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Chicago series on sexuality, history, and societyPublication details: Chicago [Ill.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, c1996.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 412 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226075938 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226075931 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Love between women.DDC classification:
  • 306.76/63/0901 22
LOC classification:
  • BS2665.6.L47 B76 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Technical Terms, Short Titles, and Keys to Symbols; 1 Introduction; Terminology; Context within Current Scholarship on Same-Sex Love in Antiquity; This Study within the Context of Ancient Mediterranean Women's History; This Study within the Context of Lesbian History; Part One: Female Homoeroticism in the Roman World: The Cultural Context of Early Christianity; 2 Introduction: Of Sappho, Woman-Woman Marriage, and the Ways of the Egyptians; 3 "Inflame Her Liver with Love": Greek Erotic Spells from Egypt.
Awards:
  • Lambda Literary Award, 1996
Summary: 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 & quot;[Brooten's] convincing analysis ... not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 176+27-277 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cover; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Technical Terms, Short Titles, and Keys to Symbols; 1 Introduction; Terminology; Context within Current Scholarship on Same-Sex Love in Antiquity; This Study within the Context of Ancient Mediterranean Women's History; This Study within the Context of Lesbian History; Part One: Female Homoeroticism in the Roman World: The Cultural Context of Early Christianity; 2 Introduction: Of Sappho, Woman-Woman Marriage, and the Ways of the Egyptians; 3 "Inflame Her Liver with Love": Greek Erotic Spells from Egypt.

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 & quot;[Brooten's] convincing analysis ... not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the.

Lambda Literary Award, 1996

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