Surpassing travels through five centuries and weaves hundreds of literary and historical details into a compelling larger vision. and now condemned,” as Faderman states in her introduction to a 1998 edition of the book. Drawing on intensive research in literature, history, and a variety of records, from private correspondence to pornography, Lillian Faderman argues that passionate love between women is a historic fact (regardless of whether the love was genital, erotic, sensual, or platonic), and that lesbianism was “once universally condoned in the Western world. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present was first published in 1981 by William Morrow was a New York Times Notable Book of 1981 won the Stonewall Book Award in 1982 was named by Lambda Literary Review as One of the 100 Best Lesbian/Gay Books of the 20th Century and is considered a great feminist classic. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present.
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