Download or read book Sapphic Modernities written by L. Doan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual and cultural studies, this book shows how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigured and redefined citizenship in the early decades of the twentieth century.