Valerie TraubThe Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
Valerie Traub is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and author of numerous works on gay/lesbian studies, including the book Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama and coeditor of Feminist Readings in Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects.
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction: 'practicing impossibilities'
1. Setting the stage behind the seen: performing Lesbian history
2. 'A certaine incredible excesse of pleasure': female orgasm, prosthetic pleasures, and the anatomical Pudica
3. The politics of pleasure
or, queering Queen Elizabeth
4. The (in)significance of Lesbian desire
5. The psychomorphology of the clitoris
or, the reemergence of the Tribade in England
6. Chaste femme love, mythological pastoral, and the perversion of Lesbian desire
7. 'Friendship so curst': Amor Impossibilia, the homoerotic lament, and the nature of Lesbian desire
8. The quest for origins, erotic similitude, and the melancholy of Lesbian identification
Notes
Index.
