Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment
This book explores the ambivalent and often contradictory ways in which English and French writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represented relations of intimacy between women. These representations included both a sexualized model of the "lesbian" tribade and an "idealized" model that portrayed female friendship as devoid of sexual expression. Whal argues that although these two perceptions of female intimacy may seem mutually exclusive, both operate as defining parameters,...
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This book explores how representations of intimacy between women included both a sexualized model of the “lesbian” tribade and an “idealized” model that portrayed female friendship as devoid of sexual expression.BooknewsExplores the ambivalent and often contradictory ways that English and French writers of the 17th and 18th centuries represented relations of intimacy between women, both the sexualized lesbian model and the ideal friendship model. Analyzes a variety of legal, medical, and historical material as well as literary texts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Introduction11The Tribade, the Hermaphrodite, and Other "Lesbian" Figures in Medical and Legal Discourse172Representations of the Tribade in Libertine Literature433'L'Amour Galant' and 'Tendre Amitie': Love and Friendship Outside the Bonds of Marriage754Female Intimacy and the Question of "Lesbian" Identity: Rereading the Female Friendship Poems of Katherine Philips1305Female Intimacy and the Problem of Female Communities: Salons, Satire, and the Mystery of the 'Precieuses'1736Regulating the "Real" in Fictional Terms: The (Auto)biography of the Tribade in Erotic and Documentary Texts212Notes255Works Cited329Index351
\ BooknewsExplores the ambivalent and often contradictory ways that English and French writers of the 17th and 18th centuries represented relations of intimacy between women, both the sexualized lesbian model and the ideal friendship model. Analyzes a variety of legal, medical, and historical material as well as literary texts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
