Chapter 1 - Thinking Sex: Knowledge, Opacity, History
17th century English play that includes reference to women satisfying each other sexually if men are not available.
Chapter 1 - Thinking Sex: Knowledge, Opacity, History
I. Dramatic Constructions of Female Homoeroticism
The book opens with what has become a familiar lament that the scholarly consensus spent entirely too long proclaiming that female homoeroticism was not attested in early modern literature (largely because no one was actually looking for it, or considering it of importance when they found it), but that the last decade or so has been beginning to remedy that misapprehension.