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Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society) (Hardcover)
by BJ Brooten (Author) "Early Christianity emerged in a world in which people from various walks of life acknowledged that women could have sexual contact with women ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 446 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press (5 Dec 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226075915
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226075914
  • Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 17.6 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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In this text Bernadette Brooten examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing a range of cultural sources, from medical texts to astrological horoscopes, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women, and discusses the surgical procedure of clitoridectomy as a method of controlling female homoeroticism. She establishes the fact that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of sexual love between women. Contrary to the common scholarly notion that early Christian sexual ethics were fundamentally different from those of the surrounding culture, Brooten contends that early Christians and their Roman neighbours shared a view of the "natural order" of society.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Is there life after Boswell?, 5 Jan 1998
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According to John Boswell's book, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, the Christian tradition was not anti-gay until the late middle ages. Professor Brooten's book makes us revisit that argument and rethink the hegemony of Boswell's thesis in gay circles. Her critique of Boswell's reading of Romans 1 is telling and accurate.

Brooten's book is a very tight and carefully argued presentation of Christian tradition as anti-gay and (especially) anti-lesbian from the outset. The wider context of this argument is fascinating. It includes translations of spells and other original material never seen before. No one interested in gay or lesbian history can neglect this study!

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