‘Returning to Yerussalem’: Exile, Return and Oral History

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1 For a discussion of the ways in which this distinction has (mis)informed the history of homosexuality, see David M. Halperin, 'Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality', Representations 63, summer 1998, pp. 93-120. 2 Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence, Oxford, 1996. 3 Dror Wahrman, 'Percy's Prologue: from Gender Play to Gender Panic in Eighteenth Century England', Past and Present 159, May 1998, pp. 113-60. 4 See for example, Lillian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present, New York, 1981; Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801, New York, 1993; Margaret Hunt, 'The Sapphic Strain: English Lesbians During the Long Eighteenth Century', in Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800, ed. Amy Froide and Judith Bennett, Philadel phia, 1999; Judith M. Bennett,' Lesbian-like and the Social History of Lesbianisms', Journal of the History of Sexuality 9, 2000, pp. 1-24. 5 For an in-depth study of the Castlehaven case along these lines, see Cynthia B. Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, New York, 1999.