Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Translators' Note -- Prologue -- Part I. "At that time, Sappho was reborn in Paris" -- 1. Sappho: The Resurrection of a Myth -- 2. The Poets' Muse -- 3. Lesbos -- or, The Topography of a Vice -- Part II. "Her Traits, Her Vices, and Her Sexual Aberrations" -- 4. The Birth of the Female Invert -- 5. A Vice or an Illness? -- 6. A Heroine at the Crossroads of Medicine and Literature -- 7. When the Third Sex Comes Out -- 8. Madame Don Juan, Arlequine, and Others -- Part III. "Damned Women or Exquisite Creatures? " -- 9. Deadly Pleasures -- 10. The Half-Women -- 11. Female Narcissus -- 12. Female Spaces, Male Gaze -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Color Plates