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Sex variant women in literature

Chapter 70: INDEX
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The work surveys imaginative literature across centuries to identify portrayals of female same-sex desire and other departures from conventional gendered sexuality, combining historical overview, quantitative bibliographic compilation, and critical commentary. The author traces recurring motifs and narrative strategies, examines how scientific and moral discourse has shaped literary treatment, and argues that imaginative writing often encodes libidinal concerns overlooked by empirical science. Arranged with documentation and examples drawn from a wide range of texts, the survey aims to map patterns of representation, terminology, and social response rather than to judge individual authors.

INDEX

A l’Heure des Mains Jointes, 159, 168

Abercrombie, Lascelles, 280

Actes et Entr’actes, 155, 156

Adams, Fay, 333

Adler, Alfred, 152, 269

Aeneid, 25

After Such Pleasures, 307

Against the Wall, 184, 289-290

Albertine Disparue, 208

Alciphron, 27, 28, 29, 38

Aldington, Richard, 155, 189

Alighieri, Dante
see
Dante Alighieri

All Alone; the Life of Emily Brontë, 131

Allerhand Volk, 219

Alpers, Anthony, 192

amazons, 25, 32, 36, 39, 99, 155

Les Amies, 77

El Amor Lesbio, 53

Amores, 28

L’Amour et le Plaisir, 203

Anna and the King of Siam, 329

Anderson, Helen, 317-318, 351

Anderson, Sherwood, 264-265, 273

L’Androgyne, 108

The Angry Woman, 329

Ann Vickers, 300

Anna Karenina, 223

Annette and Sylvie, 205-207, 273

Anthon, Kate Scott, 146, 148

Anthony, Catherine, 136

anthropology, 25, 52, 347

anti-feminism, 91-93, 95-99, 256, 351

antipathy to men, 25, 26, 40, 76, 79, 89, 93, 94, 100, 159, 208-210, 219, 236, 244-246, 253, 261, 278, 279-280, 297, 305, 309, 312, 314, 315, 320, 321, 323, 328, 331, 338

The Apes of God, 292

Aphrodite, 112-113, 193

Apollodorus, 24, 25, 26

Appointment in Paris, 333, 341

Arcadia, The Countess of Pembroke’s, 36-38

Arch of Triumph, 328

Aretino, Pietro, 46

Ariosto, Ludovico, 35-36, 109, 117

Arnim, Elisabeth von, 125-127

Arrival and Departure, 325

As You Like It, 40

Astarte, 201

Astrée, 38-39

Atalanta, 26

Athene, 25, 26

Atkins, Elizabeth, 185, 186

Aubigny, Madeleine de Maupin d’, 65-66

Auf Kypros, 174

“Aurel,” 155

Aus guter Familie, 218, 220

author’s disapproval
explicit, 27, 73, 77, 80-82, 96-98, 104-108, 176, 191, 203, 226, 235, 249, 261, 276, 292, 300, 308-309
implied, 26, 55, 63, 75, 80, 86, 95-96, 110, 111, 189, 201, 204, 224, 227, 235, 236, 241, 256, 257-260, 266, 281-282, 288-291, 292, 293-294, 301, 307, 314, 315, 320, 325-326, 328-331

author’s tolerance
explicit, 56-59, 60, 159-173, 193-200, 204-210, 213, 219, 254, 263, 279-281, 286, 309, 319, 324
implied, 21, 34-35, 39, 49, 50, 60-61, 64, 65, 66-67, 89-90, 112-113, 178, 188, 190, 202, 249-250, 255, 263, 265, 267-269, 270, 272, 273-274, 282-283, 291-292, 298, 302-303, 304-307, 320, 321, 322-323, 324, 327, 331-334, 338, 339-340

Aventures de l’Esprit, 155, 156, 205

Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 113, 114, 193

The Bachelor Girl, 207

Bacon, Josephine Dascom
see
Dascom (Bacon), Josephine Dodge

Baker, Dorothy, 320, 325-326

Baker, Ida, 192

Balzac, Honoré de, 53, 62-64, 66, 72, 104, 114, 127, 218, 224, 345

Barnes, Djuna, (186, note 61), 316-317, 351

Barbey, d’Aurevilly, Jules, 83

Barney, Natalie Clifford, 62, 154-158, 161, 163, 164, 166, 171, 172, 174, 177, 178, (186, note 61), 192, 205

Barrès, Maurice, 88, 89, 94

Basler, Roy, 74

Baudelaire, Charles, 76-77, 78, 104, 105, 110, 114

Beard, Mary, 23

“The Beautiful House,” 255

Beer, Thomas, 298-299

Belot, Adolphe, 81-83, 97, 114, 220, 331

Bennett, Arnold, 263-264, 271-272, 280, 327

Benson, E. F., 130

Bernard, Dr. Claude, 53

Betham, Edwards, Mathilda, 192, 246

bisexuality
defined, 11, 91
men preferred, 35, 36, 44, 49, 96, 106-108, 113, 220, 221, 223, 227, 256, 281, 309, 310, 311, 322, 333
no preference, 27, 28, 45, 46, 49, 84, 85, 87, 90, 96-98, 99, 110, 112-113, 151, 153, 174-177, 180-192, 204-208, 224, 235, 279, 282, 286, 296, 318-319, 326, 327
women preferred, 19-21, 82-83, 86, 100-104, 113, 122, 176, 201, 204, 212, 213, 214, 216, 220, 221, 295, 299, 310, 311, 312, 316, 328, 339

Blixen, Baroness Karen
see
Dinesen, Isak

Bloch, Iwan, 38

Blood, Fanny, 55-59

A Blythedale Romance, 136

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 46, 47

Bodin, Charles, 103

Boiardo, Matteo, 35

Bolton, Isabel, 331

Bolts of Melody, 148

Bona Dea, 27, 71

La Bonifas, 208, 211, 216, 222, 234, 277, 278

Book Review Digest, (351, note 3)

Borys, Daniel, 204, 219

Boston Adventure, 326

The Bostonians, 15, 95-96, 110, 112, 114, 257, 315

La Bouche Fardée, 213

Bourdet, Edouard, 208, 211-213, 277

Bourges, Clémence de, 117, 118, 119, 120, 126

Bourget, Paul, 87

Bowen, Elizabeth, 279, 282-283, 287, 351

Bowles, Jane, 324

Boyd, Ernest, 90

Boy, Charles, 119, 120

Boyle, Kay, 320-322, 351

Bradley, Katherine, 141-145

Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille de, 43-44, 104, 118

Brentano, Bettina
see
Arnim, Elisabeth von

Breuer, J., 151

Breville, Pierre de, 201

“The Bridegroom’s Body,” 321-322

Brock, Lilyan, 311

Brontë, Anne, 132, 134

Brontë, Branwell, 130, 132, 134

Brontë, Charlotte, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135

Brontë, Emily, 129-135, 136, 178, 179, 245, 353

The Brontës’ Web of Childhood, 132, 133, 188

Browne, Stella, 199

Browning, Robert, 142, 143, 144, 188

Brownrigg, Gawen, 311

Brumes de Fjords, 159, 166

Brun, Charles, 172

The Buck in the Snow, 187

Burnett, Hallie and Whit, 332

Burt, Struthers, 299-300

Burton, Sir Richard, 78

Butler, Lady Eleanor, 123-124

Caldwell, Erskine, 326

Callisto, 25, 26

Camilla, 25

Cape, Jonathan, 279

Capri, 182, 281-282, 330

The Captive (Bourdet), 211-213, 277, 325, 326, 349

The Captive (Proust), 204

The Careless Husband, 121

Carlotta, Noll, 204, 219

Carola, 328

Carpenter, Edward, 149

Caryll, Mary, 123

Casan, V. S., 53

Casanova de Seingalt, Giacomo, 43, 45, 46

Casanovas letztes Abenteuer, 236

Casper, J. L., 53, 86

“The Cat and the King,” 255

Catholic League for Decency, 241

Cendres et Poussières, 158, 164

The Censor Marches On, 319

censorship, 15, 21, 29, 76, 78, 81, 87, 150, 186, 228, 241, 243, 256, 262, 265, 277, 279-280, 311, 313-314, 319, 325, 341