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Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism

Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism

Brooten, Bernadette J.

Hardcover

Series: Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society (Hardcover)

Religion General General ChristianityGLBTQIA Studies

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ISBN10: 0226075915
ISBN13: 9780226075914
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Dec 15 1996
Pages: 446
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.97 Width: 6.91 Depth: 9.87
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
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

[Brooten's] convincing analysis . . . not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the past, but it should also shape the way in which that past, particularly the early Christian texts with their immense normative weight, will be used for the future.--Anne L. Clark, Journal of Lesbian Studies

Love Between Women gives contemporary debates on sexuality a carefully delineated past. It boldly insists upon a different future, one informed by history but not tyrannized by it.--Susan Ackerman, Lambda Book Report

Fascinating, provocative and lucid. . . . Brooten has made a fundamental contribution to women's and gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and classics.--Elizabeth A. Castelli, Women's Review of Books

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Studies Book, 1997

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