Sappho and the feminist movement: twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Johnson, Marguerite

Title: Sappho and the feminist movement: twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Creator: Johnson, Marguerite
Relation: A Companion to the Greek Lyric p. 484-495
Relation: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119122661.ch33
Publisher: Wiley
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2022
Description: Feminists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have embraced Sappho as a symbol of female emancipation and political and social protest. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Suffragettes, and feminists living in the diaspora of Paris' Left Bank championed Sappho. This chapter focuses on Sappho and the feminist movement during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It considers her place in both Suffragette literalized theatricality and speeches for rhetorical protest. As a point of comparison and contrast, the chapter discusses her appropriation by women such as Natalie Clifford Barney and her turn-of-the-century Parisian salon. Moving to the era of second wave feminism in the United States, it provides examples of the many references to, and appropriation of Sappho and her work, particularly by radical lesbian feminists. The chapter ends with some case studies of Sappho in the twenty-first century.
Subject: Sappho; feminist movement; Suffragettes; female emancipation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439445
Identifier: uon:40930
Identifier: ISBN:9781119122623
Language: eng

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