Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer

Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures

Sahar Amer

252 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated i...

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