An examination of the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual and cultural studies, this book shows how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigured and redefined citizenship in the early decades of the twentieth century.

An interdisciplinary study of visual culture, literary theory, cultural studies and queer/gender studies

Introduction; L.Doan & J.Garrity PART I: SEXUAL GEOGRAPHIES: CIRCULATION AND MOBILITY The Sapphist in the City: Reading Lesbian Modernist Paris Through the Frame of Sapphic Modernity; J.Winning Romaine Brooks: Portraits That Look Back; T.T.Latimer Alice Anderson: Women, Motoring and Australia; G.Clarson PART II: THE SAPPHIC BODY IN SPACE: LEISURE, COMMODITY CULTURE, DOMESTICITY Smoking and Sapphic Modernities, 1900-1939; P.Tinkler 'Woman's Place is the Home': Conservative Sapphic Modernity; L.Doan Deco With a Difference: English Interior Design During the Interwar Years; B.Elliott PART III: IN AND OUT OF PLACE: HISTORY, DISPLACEMENT AND REVISION Impossible Objects: Waiting for the Revolution in S.T. Warner's Summer Will Show ; H.Love Virginia Woolf's Greek Lessons ; C.Lamos Pictures of Ambiguity: Women's Art and the Modern Woman; P.Gerrish Nunn Unnatural Passions: Sex Between Women in British Journalism 1920-1960s; A.Oram PART IV: EMBRACING DISCURSIVE SPACE: REIMAGINING PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SPIRITUALITY Edith Ellis, Sapphic Idealism, and The Lover's Calendar (1912); J.Wallace Seances and Slander: Radclyffe Hall in 1920; J.Medd 'Running to Stand Still': The Rhetorics of Arrested Development in Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel and Freud's 'Psychogenesis'; P.Rau Mary Butts's Fanatical Pédérastie: Queer Urban Life in 1920s London and Paris; J.Garrity