Lesbian Historic Motif Project

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Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy 3.68 avg rating — 911 ratings
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Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (The Middle Ages Series)
Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (The Middle Ages Series) 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England
Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800
Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism 3.85 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century
Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior
The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Women Troubadours (Norton Paperback)
The Women Troubadours (Norton Paperback)
by: Meg Bogin
3.93 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650
Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) 4.17 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Handbook Medieval Sexuality
Handbook Medieval Sexuality 3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society
Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Tradition of Female Cross-dressing in Early Modern Europe
The Tradition of Female Cross-dressing in Early Modern Europe 3.78 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850
Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Female Homosexuality in the Middle East
Female Homosexuality in the Middle East 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 A.D.
Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 A.D. 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Roman Sexualities
Roman Sexualities 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Clothes Make the Man
Clothes Make the Man 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
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In the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women Around 1800
In the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women Around 1800 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality 4.03 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection
Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature 3.58 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World
Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World 4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Voice of the Trobairitz: Perspectives on the Women Troubadours
The Voice of the Trobairitz: Perspectives on the Women Troubadours 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance
Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance 3.89 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15)
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15) 3.65 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages
Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) 4.35 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 42)
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 42) 4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840
I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840 4.03 avg rating — 354 ratings
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The Entertaining Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu. Who Made the Tour of Europe, Dressed in Men's Cloaths, Now Done Into English ... Manuscript. the Second Edition. Volume 3 of 3
The Entertaining Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu. Who Made the Tour of Europe, Dressed in Men's Cloaths, Now Done Into English ... Manuscript. the Second Edition. Volume 3 of 3 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History
Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History 4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission (Classics and Contemporary Thought) (Volume 3)
Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission (Classics and Contemporary Thought) (Volume 3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England
Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Lesbian Feminist Studies
Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Lesbian Feminist Studies 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mary Diana Dods, A Gentleman and a Scholar
Mary Diana Dods, A Gentleman and a Scholar 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland
Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland 3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings
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En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera
En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies
Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies 3.55 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past 4.02 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender
Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Queering the Middle Ages
Queering the Middle Ages 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture
The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Bisexuality in the Ancient World
Bisexuality in the Ancient World 4.13 avg rating — 660 ratings
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The Literature of Lesbianism
The Literature of Lesbianism 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Apparitional Lesbian
The Apparitional Lesbian 4.21 avg rating — 111 ratings
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke 3.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Mémoires, Secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth Century France
The Mémoires, Secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth Century France really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Gender Transgressions: Crossing the Normative Barrier in Old French Literature
Gender Transgressions: Crossing the Normative Barrier in Old French Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 BC-AD 250
Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 BC-AD 250 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Studying Medieval Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Studying Medieval Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England
Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World
Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World
by: B. Britt
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man
Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man 3.55 avg rating — 1,342 ratings
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Technologies of Gender. Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction
Technologies of Gender. Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction 3.90 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937
Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Series Q)
Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Series Q) 4.31 avg rating — 52 ratings
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We Are Michael Field
We Are Michael Field 3.68 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Greek Homosexuality
Greek Homosexuality 3.78 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love
Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Medieval Latin and the Rise of European Love Lyric
Medieval Latin and the Rise of European Love Lyric 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon
Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon 3.83 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present 4.02 avg rating — 844 ratings
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To Believe in Women : What Lesbians Have Done for America
To Believe in Women : What Lesbians Have Done for America 4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions (Feminist Crosscurrents, 2)
Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions (Feminist Crosscurrents, 2)
by: Karla Jay
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures
Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Crossing the Stage
Crossing the Stage really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America"
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" 3.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment
Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Lesbian Premodern
The Lesbian Premodern 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Queering the Renaissance (Series Q)
Queering the Renaissance (Series Q) 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze
Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Series Q)
Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Series Q) 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance
Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance
Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Ladies
The Ladies 3.61 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Female Masculinity
Female Masculinity 4.01 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World
Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World 3.60 avg rating — 50 ratings
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English Sexualities, 1700-1800
English Sexualities, 1700-1800 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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What Lesbians Do in Books
What Lesbians Do in Books really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon
Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence
Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Amazon and The Page
The Amazon and The Page
by: Karla Jay
4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Greek Erotica
Greek Erotica 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women
The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739–1796
The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739–1796 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century
Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality
From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality 2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Premodern Sexualities
Premodern Sexualities liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings