Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture »

An in-depth study of early 20th century social conditions and cultural trends in Britain that constructed the popular image of the "modern lesbian"

Juliet Sarkessian

A fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians in modern society.

Introduction: ``It's Hard to Tell Them Apart Today''
1 The Mythic Moral Panic: Radclyffe Hall and the New Genealogy
2 ``That Nameless Vice Between Women'': Lesbianism and the Law
3 Outraging the Decencies of Nature? Uniformed Female Bodies
4 Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s
5 Lesbian Writers and Sexual Science: A Passage to Modernity?
6 Portrait of a Sapphist? Fixing the Frame of Reference