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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 awarene...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooten, Bernadette J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago [Ill.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, ©1996.
Colección:Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.