02193cam a22003138i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020002500063020002200088035002200110040003800132041001300170090002700183100004200210245015800252260005000410300001900460490002300479500003700502504004100539520108700580700002801667700002201695740002101717942001401738952011201752999001501864on1176353018OCoLCta210505s2020    onca     b    000 1 eng    a9781554814800 (pbk.)  a1554814804 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)1176353018  aNLCbengerdacNLCdNLCdBDXdYDX1 aenghger  aFicb.D8435S56B74 20201 aDuc, Aimee,d1869-approximately 1908.10aAre they women? :ba novel concerning the third sex /cAimée Duc (Mina Adelt-Duc) ; edited and translated by Margaret Sonser Breen and Nisha Kommattam.  aPeterborough, Ont. :bBroadview Press,c2020.  a144 p. :bill.0 aBroadview editions  aTranslation of: Sind es Frauen?.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  a"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.1 aBreen, Margaret Sonser.1 aKommattam, Nisha.0 aSind es Frauen?.  2localcBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oFic .D8435S56B74 2020pPNLIB21062196r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c2383d2383