Table of Contents

Introduction: "It's Hard to Tell Them Apart Today" 1 The Mythic Moral Panic: Radclyffe Hall and the New Genealogy 2 "That Nameless Vice Between Women": Lesbianism and the Law 3 Outraging the Decencies of Nature? Uniformed Female Bodies 4 Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s 5 Lesbian Writers and Sexual Science: A Passage to Modernity? 6 Portrait of a Sapphist? Fixing the Frame of Reference

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An in-depth study of early 20th century social conditions and cultural trends in Britain that constructed the popular image of the "modern lesbian"

About the Author

Laura Doan is professor of English at SUNY Geneseo. She has edited The Lesbian Postmodern (Columbia) as well as, with Lucy Bland, Sexology in Culture: Labeling Bodies and Desires and Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science.

Reviews

A fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society. -- Juliet Sarkessian Lambda Book Report