Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women and National Culture

An examination of the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual and cultural studies, this book shows how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigured and redefined citizenship in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; L.Doan & J.Garrity PART I: SEXUAL GEOGRAPHIES: CIRCULATION AND MOBILITY The Sapphist in the City: Reading Lesbian Modernist Paris Through the Frame of Sapphic Modernity; J.Winning Romaine Brooks: Portraits That Look Back; T.T.Latimer Alice Anderson: Women, Motoring and Australia; G.Clarson PART II: THE SAPPHIC BODY IN SPACE: LEISURE, COMMODITY CULTURE, DOMESTICITY Smoking and Sapphic Modernities, 1900-1939; P.Tinkler 'Woman's Place is the Home': Conservative Sapphic Modernity; L.Doan Deco With a Difference: English Interior Design During the Interwar Years; B.Elliott PART III: IN AND OUT OF PLACE: HISTORY, DISPLACEMENT AND REVISION Impossible Objects: Waiting for the Revolution in S.T. Warner's Summer Will Show ; H.Love Virginia Woolf's Greek Lessons ; C.Lamos Pictures of Ambiguity: Women's Art and the Modern Woman; P.Gerrish Nunn Unnatural Passions: Sex Between Women in British Journalism 1920-1960s; A.Oram PART IV: EMBRACING DISCURSIVE SPACE: REIMAGINING PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SPIRITUALITY Edith Ellis, Sapphic Idealism, and The Lover's Calendar (1912); J.Wallace Seances and Slander: Radclyffe Hall in 1920; J.Medd 'Running to Stand Still': The Rhetorics of Arrested Development in Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel and Freud's 'Psychogenesis'; P.Rau Mary Butts's Fanatical Pédérastie: Queer Urban Life in 1920s London and Paris; J.Garrity

About the Author :
LAURA DOAN is Reader in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. She is author of Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern Lesbian Culture (2001) and editor of several collections on the history of sexuality and lesbian studies. JANE GARRITY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary (2003).

Review :
'This project is shrewdly conceived, comprehensive in its ambition, and representative of the most innovative work going on today at the intersection of sexuality and modernity studies....This book offers us new perspectives on some of the classic questions and figures characterizing the discourse on lesbians and modernity....This is a great project.' - Jean Walton, Professor of English, University of Rhode Island, Author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference (2001)