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Tonight’s speaker explores the image of “The Lesbian” – monstrous, tragic or exoticised, in English literature of the 1910s and 20s.
Using illustrations and quotations, she will set this within the context of earlier cultural history, the fin-de-siècle fascination with “deadly and dangerous females”, and the literary/artistic desire for lesbians, aesthetic and decadent men. But alongside these projections, she will look at real-life lesbian women who engaged with an idea of the Sapphic Priestess of Aphrodite as an inspiration in their literary practice. Lindsay River’s MA dissertation (London Metropolitan) examined early 20th-century constructions of lesbianism. She now works professionally on ageism, queer rights and queer pagan perspectives. A retired astrologer, she wrote (with Sally Gillespie) The Knot of Time: Astrology and Female Experience (1987).
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Lindsay River | talks |
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Date and Time: |
19 July 2007 at 7:15 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Venue: |
Treadwell's Books |
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Tickets: |
£5 |
Available from: |
Treadwells Books |
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