![]() ![]() Male power or tried to pass as men, they were usually, until quite recently, left free to love one another.Īll of this changed suddenly and radically at the turn of this century, when sexologists, Freud among them, classified women's love for each other as ''morbid'' and ''diseased'' a woman who preferred to shareĪn equal life with another woman rather than live as the inferior of a man was declared an anomaly of nature. What Lillian Faderman has demonstrated in '' Surpassing the Love of Men'' is that, except when women preempted They were befriended by the Duke of Wellington, Edmund BurkeĪnd Sir Walter Scott among others Wordsworth saluted them in verse. IN 1778 two upper-class Irish women, who would become known as the Ladies of Llangollen, ran off, set up house and lived together until one of them died 53 years later. ![]() SURPASSING THE LOVE OF MEN Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women From the Renaissance to the Present. Her most recent book is ''Reinventing Womanhood.'' Heilbrun is an author, critic and professor at Columbia University. Section 7, Column 3 Book Review Deskīy CAROLYN G. ![]() April 5, 1981, Sunday, Late City Final Edition ![]()
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