03819nam 22006734a 450 991045212680332120200520144314.01-280-94716-097866109471640-8135-4119-010.36019/9780813541198(CKB)1000000000468118(EBL)967388(OCoLC)799765845(SSID)ssj0000273449(PQKBManifestationID)11225804(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273449(PQKBWorkID)10322823(PQKB)11491098(MiAaPQ)EBC967388(OCoLC)133165707(MdBmJHUP)muse21310(DE-B1597)529155(DE-B1597)9780813541198(Au-PeEL)EBL967388(CaPaEBR)ebr10150138(CaONFJC)MIL94716(EXLCZ)99100000000046811820041004d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen together/women apart[electronic resource] portraits of lesbian Paris /Tirza True LatimerNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20051 online resource (227 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-3594-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199) and index.Lesbian Paris between the wars -- Romaine Brooks : portraits that look back -- "Narcissus and Narcissus": Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore -- Suzy Solidor and her likes.What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider an array of visual representations that have been put into circulation by lesbians themselves over the last six or seven decades. In the early twentieth century, though, no notion of lesbianism as a coherent social or cultural identity yet existed. In Women Together/Women Apart, Tirza True Latimer explores the revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and allowed them to recognize each other. Flocking to Paris from around the world, artists and performers such as Romaine Brooks, Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and Suzy Solidor used portraiture to theorize and visualize a "new breed" of feminine subject. The book focuses on problems of feminine and lesbian self-representation at a time and place where the rights of women to political, professional, economic, domestic, and sexual autonomy had yet to be acknowledged by the law. Under such circumstances, same-sex solidarity and relative independence from men held important political implications. Combining gender theory with visual, cultural, and historical analysis, Latimer draws a vivid picture of the impact of sexual politics on the cultural life of Paris during this key period. The book also illuminates the far-reaching consequences of lesbian portraiture on contemporary constructions of lesbian identity.Lesbian artistsFranceParisBiographyLesbiansFranceParisBiographyArts, FrenchFranceParis20th centuryParis (France)Intellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.Lesbian artistsLesbiansArts, French704/.086/6430944361Latimer Tirza True1030166MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452126803321Women together2446965UNINA