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Category Archives: Week 8: Female Transvestism to “Romantic Friendship”
Invisible Lesbians
Throughout history the inability of men to understand women has led to a misconstrued understanding of female sexuality and forces women into solely including women within their circles. This was exceptionally evident in the Victorian era where women were expected … Continue reading
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Men are trash
During the 19th century, men were ignorant in refusing to acknowledge that women were in a relationship with other women just like a heterosexual couple. They seemed to believed that because a man was not present in the relationship, it … Continue reading
Could Murder be Committed by Hocus-Pocus?
That essentially sums up the predominant male view of female homosexuality and eroticism in the early 19th century. How, you ask? Going back to the year 1811, Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie, two mistresses of a girls boarding … Continue reading
Persecution of Women in Same-Sex Relationships
The notion that all women were persecuted for being in relationships with other women is simply untrue. The women who did not attempt to look masculine or take on a male role would usually come out unscathed in same-sex relationships, … Continue reading
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
If someone were to go around and ask this question, there would be a multitude of answers given. If someone isn’t there to hear something, does it actually happen? If something happens in private, does it still happen if there … Continue reading
Why Passionate Relationships Between Women were Encouraged
In Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman, Faderman brings up the idea of romantic friendships between females, which demonstrate that the social world encouraged passionate relationships … Continue reading
Female Transvestism and the Utilization of Class Privilege
In the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, those who had lesbian sex were not especially persecuted. However, women who both engaged in lesbian sex and rejected all other aspects of their roles as females suffered from persecution, namely those from lower … Continue reading
