10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAPPHIST»
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sapphist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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27 Rue de Fleurus (My Life with Gertrude)
Bromo? Alice. Gertrude, please go on... GeRTRude. What was I saying? MARiAn.
You were talking about sexual attraction. GeRTRude. I was? Alice. No, you were
talking about marriage and Baltimore! But I believe a Sapphist is a Sapphist ...
2
Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume 1: Heterosexuality and ...
This passionate adultery coexisted after the 1770s with the newly emerged role
of the masculinized sapphist ... that the presence of the sapphist role began to
reorganize the desires of the majority of women into a female heterosexual
identity.
3
Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of ...
By comparison, for Trumbach, For most of the century there was no exclusive
sapphist role against which the majority of women could define themselves as
heterosexual. And after 1 77o when it becomes possible to document a sapphist
role ...
4
Virginia Woolf: Revaluation and Continuity, a Collection of ...
They seem to indicate that even at this moment Virginia still did not consider
herself a Sapphist. "These Sapphists," she wrote, referring to people like Vita, not
people like Virginia, "love women"; "their" — not "our" — friendship is "never ...
5
Virginia Woolf in Context
Doan found a range of terms for female same-sex love, among them 'Sapphist', '
female sexual invert', 'masculine woman', 'homogenic', 'intermediate sex', '
homosexual', and 'lesbian'. Both Virginia and Leonard Woolf preferred the words
...
Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman, 2012
6
Materializing Queer Desire: Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol
As I hope to demonstrate, her figure of the decadent Sapphist presents lesbian
identity as a privileged emblem for modernity's most recognizable contradictions
—particularly decadence/utopia, modern/ancient, and ephemeral/eternal.
My Sapphist reactions stunned me, yet I quite enjoyed her touch. Perhaps some
men find it pleasing as well, although I have difficulty imagining it. After all, what
orifice would they enter? Oh, oh, that orifice! Oh my. Even the Kama Sutra does ...
8
All We Know: Three Lives
And there was a “joke”: “ 'What is a Sapphist?' 'A Doderast who practices Todomy
.' ” The question of what a Sapphist might be troue bled the air in England
between the 1918 libel suit the dancer Maud Allan brought against a newspaper
that ...
9
Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women and National Culture
If our modernity might be characterized by its known-ness and, simultaneously,
our knowing-ness ofit, I want to suggest that, in fact, the sapphist might see her
opportunity for expression and sustenance in the active delineation of the
modern.
Laura Doan, Jane Garrity, 2006
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Sexual Sameness (Routledge Revivals): Textual Differences in ...
II Initially, of course, it was Vita who was the sapphist — a 'pronounced Sapphist,
& may, thinks Ethel Sands, have an eye on me, old though I am', Virginia wrote in
February 1923, two months after meeting Vita.20 By January 1925 it is not clear ...
Joseph Bristow, Lecturer in Victorian Studies Department of English and Related Victorian Studies Joseph Bristow, 2014
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAPPHIST»
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sapphist is used in the context of the following news items.
Carol Review Cannes
It's apparent from the moment that Carol Aird, Blanchett's glamorous suburban sapphist, locks eyes with Therese Belivet, Rooney's closeted, curious shopgirl, ... «Vanity Fair, May 15»
Books Like The Paris Wife Replace Careful Biography With …
... Virginia is just a self-centered girl, whimsical to the point of madness, “a burrowing animal in search of perpetual notice,” possibly a “Sapphist,” possibly in love ... «Slate Magazine, Dec 14»
VAJAYJAY IS SO BORING: Here's 9 Historic Euphemisms For Sex …
AKA a lesbian, or "sapphist" in the terminology of the era. “Tom” in this sense likely stems from “tomboy,” which astonishingly has been in use with its modern ... «xoJane, Apr 14»
Anarchy Looms Over Staplehurst
Full of innuendo and wordplay, the opening scene between green-fingered Sapphist Vera Sackcloth-Vest (Miriam Margolyes) and her intellectually challenged ... «Radio Times, Mar 14»
No audition needed: Russell Crowe picks himself for lead role in film …
Known as 'Scary Airey', the frisky sapphist mover and shaker famously said C5 would be about 'films, football and *******'. How will her American overseers ... «Daily Mail, Aug 13»
Book Review: Flappers: Six Women Of A Dangerous Generation
Tamara, a refugee in Paris, reinvented herself as a portrait painter and Sapphist. Tallulah threw caution to the wind, determined to make her name on the ... «Express.co.uk, Jun 13»
Review: Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters by Jane Dunn
If Daphne is the one we inevitably want to follow, Dunn succeeds in pricking our curiosity about her sapphist siblings, temperamentally so unlike, but suffering ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 13»
Review: Festival of Words II
Nicki Hastie from the Sapphist Writers used the festival's themes of love and lace to compose a poem about connections. An engaging speaker, Nicki spoke of ... «LeftLion, Feb 13»
Indiana High Schoolers Push to Ban Gay Classmates from …
Must be a "sapphist". [Well, I confess that's what I would be thinking.] or There, but for the grace of God go I. or Lord, how can I reach out to them in love? [What a ... «TIME, Feb 13»
Honda Made a Car Just for Dumb-Dumb Lady Drivers
What a relief to hear of a vehicle that a female can operate without appearing as boyish or like some sort of Sapphist. But what of the interior, you ask. Excellent ... «Jezebel, Nov 12»
