{"product_id":"fashioning-sapphism-the-origins-of-a-modern-english-lesbian-culture-paperback","title":"Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Doan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's \u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFashioning Sapphism\u003c\/i\u003e locates the novelist Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians--including the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Allen, the artist Gluck, and the writer Bryher--within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation, thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive new archival research, the book interrogates anew a range of myths long accepted without question (and still in circulation) concerning, to cite only a few, the extent of homophobia in the 1920s, the strategic deployment of sexology against sexual minorities, and the rigidity of certain cultural codes to denote lesbianism in public culture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Doan is professor of English at SUNY Geneseo. She has edited \u003ci\u003eThe Lesbian Postmodern\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia) as well as, with Lucy Bland, \u003ci\u003eSexology in Culture: Labeling Bodies and Desires\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.6 x 5.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 03, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Triangle Awards (2002)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45301972009062,"sku":"9780231110075","price":70.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/YTdHdU9UOVR6NHBEbFZadXRHN1NxQT09.webp?v=1773982232","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/fashioning-sapphism-the-origins-of-a-modern-english-lesbian-culture-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}