A “Wrangling Parliament”: Terminology and Audience in Medieval European Literary Studies and Lesbian Studies

Laskaya, Anne

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“…Like Cameron in her prefatory note, a number of lesbian and queer historians embrace "telling the whole story," entertaining the alternative history that "reasoning, if not documentation, persuades us -must have been." 23 Lesbian historical researchers have long debated whether same-sex affection and erotic behavior in the past can be considered "lesbian" in the sense that we currently use the term. In the 1990s, transgender scholars and activists began to caution against claiming cross-dressing or passing women as lesbians, which can ignore transgender as an identity and/or historical phenomenon.…”

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Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction

Garber

2015

Journal of Lesbian Studies

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The contested field of lesbian history exists along a continuum, with undisputed evidence on one end and informed speculation on the other. Lesbian historical fiction extends the spectrum, envisioning the lives of lesbian pirates, war heroes, pioneers, bandits, and stock romantic characters, as well as the handful of protagonists examined here whose quests specifically highlight the difficulty and importance of researching the lesbian past. The genre blossomed in the 1980s, just as the Foucauldian insistence that homosexual identity did not exist before the late nineteenth century gained sway in the academy. The proliferation of lesbian historical fictions signals the growing desire for more thorough (if not completely factual) historical underpinnings of the burgeoning lesbian identities, communities, and politics set in motion in the 1970s.

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Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction

Garber

2015

Journal of Lesbian Studies

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Who Knows, Who Cares, and Why Bother

Garber

2021

Novel Approaches to Lesbian History

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Queerly productive: Women and collaboration in Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.6

Allen-Goss

2018

Postmedieval

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Cambridge, University Library MS Ff. 1.6 (the Findern manuscript) offers a test case for a speculative exploration of the role of female queer desire in medieval theorizations of textual collaboration, and collaborative manuscript production. I argue that, whereas masculine queer desire is represented as resulting in textual as well as sexual sterility, female queer desire is potentially hyper-productive, with each female body simultaneously an inscribable surface and a prosthetic pen/penis that can inscribe. In the Findern manuscript, the narrative of the mutilated Philomena provides the nexus for multiple interrelating and mutually modifying representations of female vocality, female desire, and female-female relations that range from the supportive to the erotic. The manuscript's examples of collaboratively produced texts model ways to break away from the hierarchal model of inscriber and inscribed, masculine and feminine, and produce spaces in which desiring female speakers can recuperate from the wounds of the masculine paradigm of textual inscription, and develop their own female-centric modes of erotic expression.postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2018) 9, 334-348.

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A “Wrangling Parliament”: Terminology and Audience in Medieval European Literary Studies and Lesbian Studies

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction

Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction

Who Knows, Who Cares, and Why Bother

Queerly productive: Women and collaboration in Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.6

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