The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 | Susan S. Lanser
During the 17th and 18th centuries, as European cultures grappled with the challenges of emergent modernity, ideas about female same-sex relations became a flash-point for contests about authority and liberty, power and difference, desire and duty, mobility and change, order and governance. Exploring a wide range of texts from more than two centuries and multiple language cultures, this book argues for the significance of relations between women to the early modern social imaginary.
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 | 
