Sex Lives of Famous Lesbians by Nigel Cawthorne

Sex Lives of Famous Lesbians

Nigel Cawthorne

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. So on your bike, baby. Or rather, on that fish. So it’s not politically correct for a straight man to take the mickey of lesbian lovers. But surely sapphic sex is just as funny as every other variety. Featuring Queen Anne, Queen Christina of Sweden, Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Maries Stopes, Sappho of Lesbos, Rosa Bonheur, Natalie Barney, Colette, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, Radclyffe Hall and her Well of Loneliness, Mercedes de Acosta, Agnes Moorehead and Edith Head, Barbara Stanwyck, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Renault, Anna Freud and Capucine, plus a host of walk-on (or sit-on) parts to pry into. Sex Lives of the Famous Lesbians is not just for the butch and the femme. Its interest is not confined to the sewing circle. It is for all those who want to understand what it is like to be one of the girls. And for straight men, it promises hot girl-on-girl action.

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Queen Victoria simply did not believe that lesbianism existed, so it was never outlawed in England in the 19th century. However, in the U.S. Susan B. Anthony, the artist Natalie Barney, and Emily Dickinson were all brushing up the sapphic arts. Over in France, the Napoleonic Code had introduced a certain laxity. Back in England, the death of Queen Vic led to a veritable explosion of lesbianism with the Bloomsbury Group and Radclyffe Hall. Nowadays, lesbianism is the everyday fare of soap operas and, with Madonna French-kissing Britney, global TV. Sex Lives of the Famous Lesbians contain a mixture of the glamorous, the tragic, the excessive, the absurd, and the downright comic. It aims to excite and amuse, while giving a genuine insight into the characters of those people who have shaped our history and culture.

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Details

ISBN	9781853755552
Genre	Autobiography/Biography; Humor; Lesbian Studies; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Copyright Date	2005
Publication Date	01-Mar-07
Publisher	Prion
Format	Hardcover
No. of Pages	264
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
Subject	Biography & Autobiography / General; Lesbians; Social Science / Lesbian Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General
BookID	11448