Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early

Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
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In late nineteenth-century England, â€œmannishâ€ women were considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How did this shift occur? Citizen, Invert, Queer illustrates that the equation of female masculinity with female homosexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon, a result of changes in national and racial as well as sexual discourses in early twentieth-century public culture.
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Incorporating cultural histories of prewar womenâ€™s suffrage debates, British sexology, womenâ€™s work on the home front during World War I, and discussions of interwar literary representations of female homosexuality, Deborah Cohler maps the emergence of lesbian representations in relation to the decline of empire and the rise of eugenics in England. Cohler integrates discussions of the histories of male and female same-sex erotics in her readings of New Woman, representations of male and female suffragists, wartime trials of pacifist novelists and seditious artists, and the interwar infamy of novels such as Radclyffe Hallâ€™s The Well of Loneliness and Virginia Woolfâ€™s Orlando.
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By examining the shifting intersections of nationalism and sexuality before, during, and after the Great War, this book illuminates profound transformations in our ideas about female homosexuality.
Country USA
Brand University of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_0816649766
ReleaseDate 2010-08-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780816649761

Country	USA
Brand	University of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer	Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	part_0816649766
ReleaseDate	2010-08-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780816649761

Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

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