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Hans-Jürgen Döpp

Sapphic Art

The poetess Sappho did not, in any way, facilitate the relationship between men and women, with her admirable Ode to Aphrodite which celebrates the love and sexuality between two women. With the liberalization of morals, female homosexuality is part of modern society and cannot be ignored. But what does history retain from these practices? How is the love between women appreciated? By infringing on the rules of past societies, how did these women live their particularity and their forbidden sexuality? This difficult exercise, undertaken by Professor Döpp, attempts to explain these censured pleasures, without inclining towards a certain voyeurism.
83 printed pages
Copyright owner
Parkstone International
Original publication
2002
Publication year
2019
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Quotes

  • circehas quoted5 years ago
    It will continue as long as men feel threatened by the autonomy of “the other sex”.
  • circehas quoted5 years ago
    Women such as Gerda Wegener, Margit Gaal, Susanne Ballivet, Charlotte Behrend-Corinth, and others created works in celebration of love.
  • circehas quoted5 years ago
    Homosexuality may be contrary to culturally conditioned norms but it is one of the basic forms of the possible variations of human love.

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