Table of Contents:
  • The tribade, the hermaphrodite, and other "lesbian" figures in medical and legal discourse
  • Representations of the tribade in libertine literature
  • 'L'amour galant' and 'tendre amitié': love and friendship outside the bonds of marriage
  • Female intimacy and the question of "lesbian" identity: rereading the female friendship poems of Katherine Philips
  • Female intimacy and the problem of female communities: salons, satire, and the mystery of the 'précieuses'
  • Regulating the "real" in fictional terms: the (auto)biography of the tribade in erotic and documentary terms.