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How were non-normative female intimacies lived, performed, and experienced in the past? Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Cynthia Sadler uncovers the lives of women in Paris who challenged the binary and heteronormative orders of their time. Moving between aristocratic milieus and the socially diverse world of the performing arts, she demonstrates that non-normative female intimacies were not the preserve of a libertine elite but formed an integral part of urban Parisian society. Female same-sex intimacies appeared in different figurations, both as alterity and as historical identity. Through the innovative concept of historical identity, this book offers a nuanced framework for understanding intimate lives beyond anachronistic and rigid categories.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 320
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Historical Gender Studies
Publication Date:
27 May 2027
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837683349
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
Cynthia Sadler, born in 1993, studied at the universities of Marburg, Tübingen, Aix-en-Provence, and Paris, including a period of study at the Sorbonne, and obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. She was a visiting scholar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). She taught at Universität Rostock, where she offered courses on female writers of the Enlightenment and non-normative intimacies in the eighteenth century. Her research focuses on women’s and gender history, the cultural history of theatre and court society, and the history of sexuality, with a particular emphasis on France and the long eighteenth century. She is academically active in both France and Germany and works at the intersection of their scholarly traditions.