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| Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
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Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: 1998-07-08
ISBN-10: 0688133304
ISBN-13: 9780688133306
List Price: $16.00
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A classic of its kind, this fascinating cultural history draws on everything from private correspondence to pornography to explore five hundred years of friendship and love between women.Surpassing the Love of Men throws a new light on shifting theories of female sexuality and the changing status of women over the centuries.
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| Customer Rating: | | I'm surprised there's only one other review for this book! It's absolutely fascinating, and should be on the list of anyone interested in not only womens' issues, but human relationships in general. It will definitely make you think, but it is not a difficult read, and Faderman covers an impressively vast array of sources. I'll be recommending this one to everybody. |
3.5 stars but this thing doesn't do halves
| Customer Rating:  | | The author forcefully insists on the real passion between the women that she studies; this becomes to me repetitive and distracting. However, given the historical context of this book, in which a "lesbian recovery" of history was less accepted, I see the purpose of her tactics. In any case, the author draws together a wealth of evidence that makes for fascinating and provocative reading, even if she does lean a bit too much on literary examples as proof of what attitudes were "really." She makes a strong case, though. Recommended. |
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