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Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer and Diane Watt, eds.
The Lesbian Premodern.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.
Series: The New Middle Ages.
Publication due: January 2011.
Page count: 256pp.

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Hardback ISBN 9780230616769, £52.00

Description:

The Lesbian Premodern invites key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies to take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography. Engaging premodernists as well as those interested primarily in modern lesbian history and literature, this book draws new conclusions on the important and often overlooked theoretical, empirical and textual work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation to premodern cultures.

Contents:
Preface: Lesbian Studies Meets the Premodern; K. Lochrie
Introduction: The Lesbian Premodern; N. Giffney, M. M. Sauer & D. Watt
PART I: THEORIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHIES
'The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography'; V. Traub
''A Wrangling Parliament': Terminology and Audience in Medieval European Literary Studies and Lesbian Studies'; A. Laskaya
'Lesbian History and Erotic Reading'; L. Farina
'The Queer Time of the Lesbian Premodern'; C. Freccero
'Virgins' and 'Not Women': Dissident Gender Positions'; T. Jankowski
PART II: READINGS AND HISTORIES
'Virgin Desires: Reading a Homoerotics of Female Monastic Community'; L. M. C. Weston
'Medieval Barbie Dolls: Femme Fatales in Ascetic Collections'; A. Klosowska
'Naming Love: The God Kama, the Goddess Ganga and the Child of Two Women'; R. Vanita
'Remembering Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge'; J. M. Bennett
'Towards a Philology of the Premodern Lesbian'; H. Puff
PART III: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LESBIAN PREMODERN
'Lesbian Time'; H. Bauer
'A Usable Past?'; L. Faderman
'Sacramentality and the Lesbian Premodern'; E. Freeman
'Invention is the Necessity of Lesbians'; L. Garber
'Lesbian Ghosts'; M. Vicinus
Afterword: The Lesbian Premodern Meets the Lesbian Postmodern; R. Wiegman