Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment

Anne anxiety argues aristocratic attempt Brantôme Chapter Charlotte Charke Chorier's claims clitoral hypertrophy clitoris companionate construction conventional critics cultural Descartes dialogues dildo discourse Donne's early modern eighteenth century Emma Donoghue England English erotic eroticism female friendship female homosexuality female intimacy female sexuality female-female desire feminine feminist femme Fiction figure France French gender hermaphrodite heterosexual heterosocial History homoerotic homoeroticism homosocial husband ideal ideology intellectual Iphis Katherine Philips l'amour lesbian lesbian desire lesbian sexuality libertine literary London lover Lucasia Mademoiselle male marriage masculine masturbation Mlle myth narrative Octavia Orinda Paris passion phallic phallocentric Philaenis platonic pleasure poems poet poetic poetry political pornographic potential précieuse qu'elle reader relations between women Renaissance representations of female rhetoric role romance romantic friendship Rosania salon Sapho satiric Scudéry Scudéry's seventeenth seventeenth-century sexual practices sexual relations social sodomy suggests tendre amitié term texts tribade tribade sexuality Tullia University Press woman women writers writing York