Love between women : early Christian responses to female homoeroticism
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
History
1 online resource (xxii, 412 pages) : illustrations
9780226075938, 9781282069633, 9786612069635, 0226075931, 1282069632, 6612069635
370353487
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Technical Terms, Short Titles, and Keys to Symbols; 1 Introduction; Terminology; Context within Current Scholarship on Same-Sex Love in Antiquity; This Study within the Context of Ancient Mediterranean Women's History; This Study within the Context of Lesbian History; Part One: Female Homoeroticism in the Roman World: The Cultural Context of Early Christianity; 2 Introduction: Of Sappho, Woman-Woman Marriage, and the Ways of the Egyptians; 3 "Inflame Her Liver with Love": Greek Erotic Spells from Egypt
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