BROOTEN: Love Between Women

Brooten, Bernadette

Love Between Women

Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism

Univ of Chicago Press, 1998

412 pages

Christian, Church History, Lesbian

"Love Between Women" examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and establishes that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of love between women. "An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible".--Mary Rose D'Angelo, "Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review" "[Brooten's] convincing analysis . . . not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the past, but it should also shape the way in which that past, particularly the early Christian texts with their immense normative weight, will be used for the future".--Anne L. Clark, "Journal of Lesbian Studies" " "Love Between Women" gives contemporary debates on sexuality a carefully delineated past. It boldly insists upon a different future, one informed by history but not tyrannized by it".--Susan Ackerman, "Lambda Book Report" "Fascinating, provocative and lucid. . . . Brooten has made a fundamental contribution to women's and gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and classics".--Elizabeth A. Castelli, "Women's Review of Books" Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Studies Book, 1997

MATTMAN, Urs: Coming In

Gays & Lesbians Reclaiming the Spiritual Journey

Wild Goose Publications, The Iona Community, 2006 (English edition, translated from the German by Urs Mattman)

230 pages. (Includes extensive bibliographical notes and resource listings)

Christian / Inter-faith, Spirituality, gay & lesbiann

STUART, E & THATCHER, A: People of Passion

What the Churches Teach about Sex
Mowbray, 1997

295 pages
Sexual Ethics, Christian History.


People of Passion is about what Christians are saying now, and have said in the past, about sex. It provides a basic theological resource for people who want to explore issues about sex and sexuality from a Christian point of view, but feel they need a perspective on the historical background and contemporary developments.
First, it enables clergy minister and priests to deal with pastoral situations related to sexuality. Second, with Christianity and sexuality appearing regularly on the curriculum of universities, colleges, seminaries and schools throughout the world, it provides and indispensable guidebook. Easy to read, it maps out the terrain and sketches the contours of contemporary controversies. Third, it is an authoritative source for professional people outside the churches who need to keep in touch with contemporary developments in Christian teaching about issues to do with sex and sexuality.