This term comes from Ros Ballaster, ‘“The Vices of Old Rome Revived”: Representations of Female Same-Sex Desire in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England’, in Suzanne Riatt (ed.), Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies (London: Only-women Press, 1994), p. Lillian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (New York: William Morrow, 1981), p. 62.Įmma Healey, Lesbian Sex Wars (London: Virago, 1996), p. See, for instance, Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973) and Gyn/ Ecology (Boston: Beacon Press, 1978).Ĭhris Weedon, Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), p. 207.Īdrienne Rich, ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’, Signs 8, 4 (1980): 631–60. Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), p. Rita May Brown, ‘Take a Lesbian Out to Lunch’, in Plain Brown Rapper (Oakland: Diana Press, 1976), pp. … Chapter 3.Jill Johnston, Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973), p. Love and “Women Who Live by Their Brains” Romantic Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Life Romantic Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Literature PART 1: The Sixteenth to Eighteenth CenturiesĪ.
Little frightens a conventional women more than to be thought a lesbian that fear, as Professor Faderman brilliantly shows, is used by the male-dominated society to keep women’s power to live freely and to love freely exclusively in male hands.
Surpassing the Love of Men is an important book, above all because it makes us understand what is involved when women choose to love women. Faderman takes a look at the traditional view of lesbianism, drawing on love letters, trial records, pornography and the ‘experts’ proclamations, and shows how shifting theories of female sexuality makes some things acceptable and others taboo.
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