LEADER 03819nam 22006734a 450 001 9910452126803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-94716-0 010 $a9786610947164 010 $a0-8135-4119-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813541198 035 $a(CKB)1000000000468118 035 $a(EBL)967388 035 $a(OCoLC)799765845 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273449 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11225804 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273449 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10322823 035 $a(PQKB)11491098 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC967388 035 $a(OCoLC)133165707 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21310 035 $a(DE-B1597)529155 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813541198 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL967388 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10150138 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL94716 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000468118 100 $a20041004d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen together/women apart$b[electronic resource] $eportraits of lesbian Paris /$fTirza True Latimer 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-3594-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199) and index. 327 $aLesbian Paris between the wars -- Romaine Brooks : portraits that look back -- "Narcissus and Narcissus": Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore -- Suzy Solidor and her likes. 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aLesbian artists$zFrance$zParis$vBiography 606 $aLesbians$zFrance$zParis$vBiography 606 $aArts, French$zFrance$zParis$y20th century 607 $aParis (France)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLesbian artists 615 0$aLesbians 615 0$aArts, French 676 $a704/.086/6430944361 700 $aLatimer$b Tirza True$01030166 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452126803321 996 $aWomen together$92446965 997 $aUNINA