Volume 28, Number 9 · May 28, 1981
Girl Crazy
By Phyllis Grosskurth
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
by Lillian Faderman
Morrow, 496 pp., $10.95 (paper)
From the alliance of feminists, male homosexuals, and lesbians, and the inevitable tensions and antagonisms among them, a new sense of the world has been taking shape that is now more widely accepted than many of those who promoted it ever dared to hope. However splendid this accomplishment has been, it would be less than honest to view it without a degree of sadness, for in a sense it has been a Pyrrhic victory. Lillian Faderman's Surpassing the Love of Men, which traces romantic friendships between women from the Renaissance to the present, is a comprehensive and illuminating study of women's struggles to live and love as they please, but it unwittingly reveals some of the uneasiness that accompanies their current success.
Review, 3116 words
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