Intimate Friends

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I HUSBAND-WIFE COUPLING
One "A Scheme of Romantic Friendship":
Love and Same-Sex Marriage
Two "Emancipated Females": The Rome Community
PART II QUEER RELATIONSHIPS
Three "They Venture to Share the Same Bed": Possible Impossibilities
Four "The Gift of Love": Religion and Lesbian Love
PART III CROSS-AGE AND CROSSED LOVE
Five "A Strenuous Pleasure": Daughter-Mother Love
Six "Passion...Immense and Unrestrained": Destructive Desires
PART IV MODERNIST REFASHIONINGS
Seven "Familiar Misquotation": Sapphic Cross-Dressing
Eight "A Love of Domination": THe Mannish Invert and Sexual Danger
Conclusion: Beyond the Family Metaphor
Appendix: The Principal Intimate Friends
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index