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lesbian [′lez·bē·ən] (psychology) Pertaining to female homosexuality. A female homosexual. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If you have a weak heart or just a short attention span, keep your distance from Emma Donoghue's intricately woven and luxuriously paced fourth novel, Life Mask, the story of the 12th Earl of Derby's 16-year courtship of the comedic actress Eliza Farren and of Eliza's ambiguous and socially dangerous friendship with the sculptor Anne Damer, rumored to be a sapphist. The story is set in Victorian England and follows our young heroine, Nancy Astley, through many incarnations--shellfish shucker, traditional male impersonator, male prostitute, plaything in the pleasure palace of a rich sapphist, housekeeper for a brother and sister in the Labour movement. That a Disney film would bother to encode her so carefully as a stereotypical - and rather likable - Sapphist of her era, is a curiosity, but, regarding both Mary and Eglantine, Cuomo's point is well-taken that subversion can work both ways: "Disney's representations of decidedly unwomanly women serve as vehicles for the validation of traditional values and images of woman and family. |
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