Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance

by Kathryn Schwarz

Book Overview

In Tough Love Kathryn Schwarz takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality during the early modern period. Imagined as embodiments of female masculinity, amazonian figures stimulated both homoerotic and heteroerotic response, and Schwarz shows that their appearance in narratives disrupted assumptions concerning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325993
• ISBN13: 9780822325994
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"