Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Sexualized Models of Female Intimacy
6. 1. The Tribade, the Hermaphrodite, and Other "Lesbian" Figures in Medical and Legal Discourse 17
7. 2. Representations of the Tribade in Libertine Literature 43
8. Part II. Idealized Models of Female Intimacy
9. 3. L' Amour Galant and Tendre Amitié: Love and Friendship Outside the Bonds of Marriage 75
10. 4. Female Intimacy and the Question of "Lesbian" Identity: Rereading the Female Friendship Poems of Katherine Philips 130
11. Part III. The Politics of Intimacy
12. 5. Female Intimacy and the Problem of Female Communities: Salons, Satire, and the Mystery of the Précieuses 173
13. 6. Regulating the "Real" in Fictional Terms: The (Auto)biography of the Tribade in Erotic and Documentary Texts 212
14. Notes 255
15. Works Cited 329
16. Index 351