Doing Some LHMP File Housekeeping
While I cast about for an organizing theme for the next bout of LHMP blogging, I think I'll do some housecleaning on loose threads in the files, like this book which simply gets a note that--however intriguing the title--is not useful for lesbian topics.
Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #506 Bray 1996 Homosexuality in Renaissance England About LHMP Full citation:Bray, Alan. 1996. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 9780231102896
As part of the purpose of this blog is to help researchers determine which publications are worth examining in more detail. I’m going ahead and blogging this item simply to note that it explicitly declines to consider women at all. This is all too common for histories of homosexuality written by male scholars. I feel that Bray is giving excuses for his simple disinterest in claiming that popular thought made no connection between female and male homosexuality. But I intend to address that topic on its own at some point.
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In the introductory matter for this book, Bray states: “I have...restricted the scope of the book to questions of male homosexuality. Female homosexuality was rarely linked in popular thought with male homosexuality, if indeed it was recognised at all. Its history is, I believe, best to be understood as part of the developing recognition of a specifically female sexuality.”
Time period: Renaissance (general)16th c17th cPlace: England View comments (0)
