Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture

by Laura Doan and Laura L. Doan

The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231110073
• ISBN13: 9780231110075
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.6"