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TY  - THES
SP  - not paginated
ID  - bbbc506
T1  - "Penetrating Tendencies: Female Masculinity and a Logic of Lesbianism in Early Modern England"
AU  - Thomas, Emily Ruth
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - Joan
KW  - Queen Margaret
KW  - homoeroticism
KW  - fantasy
KW  - sexuality
KW  - identity
LA  - English
AB  - Draws on Queen Margaret and Joan (in 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI and Richard III) whose masculine qualities encourage "sustained homoerotic fantasies about them" to offer a "new account of early modern sexuality [that] changes how we see the development of the relationship between sexual tendencies and other aspects of identity, and in particular challenges previous analyses of same-sex female sexuality in the Renaissance."
ER  -