02068cam a22003018i 4500 on1176353018 OCoLC ta 210505s2020 onca b 000 1 eng 9781554814800 (pbk.) 1554814804 (pbk.) (OCoLC)1176353018 NLC eng rda NLC NLC BDX YDX eng ger Fic .D8435S56B74 2020 Duc, Aimee, 1869-approximately 1908. Are they women? : a novel concerning the third sex / Aimée Duc (Mina Adelt-Duc) ; edited and translated by Margaret Sonser Breen and Nisha Kommattam. Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 2020. 144 p. : ill. Broadview editions Translation of: Sind es Frauen?. Includes bibliographical references. "Deeply engaged in women's rights debates and discussions of the 'third sex," Are They Women? speaks to the lively communities of lesbians in existence across turn-of-the-century Central Europe. It is one of the first lesbian novels written in German and, for that matter, in any language. It is also one of the very few pre-Second Wave feminist texts, whether German or otherwise, to provide a positive, non-pathologizing, and romantic portrait of lesbians. As such, it complicates the dominant critical narrative of pre-liberation lesbian literature, whereby heroines conventionally face loneliness, imprisonment, madness, death, and heterosexual conversion. A work of popular literature with cultural significance, Are They Women? is both highly readable and remarkably progressive for its time. This is the first complete English translation of the novel, and the only edition in print in any language. The historical appendices provide contemporary materials on homosexuality, as well as compelling images from German feminist periodicals of the time. "--Provided by publisher. Breen, Margaret Sonser. Kommattam, Nisha. Sind es Frauen?. local BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 Fic .D8435S56B74 2020 PNLIB21062196 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2383 2383