Romantic relationships between women / Les Relations amoureuses entre les femmes: XVIe-XXe siècle

We must face the facts: love between women reeks of sulfur. Whether it is fought, denied or even tolerated, today as yesterday, it disturbs a certain patriarchal order based on family and reproduction. Few historians have had the courage not to exclude it from their field. And yet, the history of romantic relationships between women is necessary for the history of all women, so true is it that lesbians have played a leading role in progressive political and artistic movements, and in the evolution of morals and mentalities. ""Let us hope that this book will make the presence of lesbians in the city more perceptible. Perhaps then their love will finally be recognized as one of the levers of women's liberation."" M.-J. B. Marie-Jo Bonnet has a doctorate in history and is a specialist in cultural history.