ABSTRACT
This chapter is about female homosexuality, that is to say, about women, and about love and sexual relations between women (be they real, imaginary, denied, caricatured, or fantasized). Today, no one would claim that women’s history should be set apart from men’s history; however, it is also important not to use the latter to justify the former. The current trend in which the masculine is necessarily linked to the feminine through the term “gender” can also be interpreted as the implicit claim that only studies offering fresh insights into all genders are worthy of interest. Many scholars convinced that sexual categories and the very notion of sexuality are variable and that homosexuality did not exist in Antiquity, think they can circumnavigate the issue of anachronism by replacing the term “homosexual” with “a man who has sexual relations with another man.”.
