Love Between Women

Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism

Author: Bernadette J. Brooten
ISBN: 9780226075921

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 awareness of love between women. "An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible."—Mary Rose D'Angelo, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review "[Brooten's] convincing analysis . . . not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the past, but it should also shape the way in which that past, particularly the early Christian texts with their immense normative weight, will be used for the future."—Anne L. Clark, Journal of Lesbian Studies "Love Between Women gives contemporary debates on sexuality a carefully delineated past. It boldly insists upon a different future, one informed by history but not tyrannized by it."—Susan Ackerman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 1998-11-01

Subjects: History / Medieval, Religion / Christianity / History, Religion / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Social Science / General, Social Science / Lesbian Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: LGBTQIA+)