Episode Details

A look at the motif of the 18th century French “Anandrine Sect” purported to be a lesbian sex club.

In this episode we talk about:

• The political context of late 18th c. France
• Pamphlet culture and secret societies
• Prominent women rumored to have lesbian relations
• The “Lodge of Lesbos”
• The Anandrine Sect
• A selection of source materials
  • Sikes, Alan. 2007. “The Trouble with Tribades: Struggles of Sex and Class in French Revolutionary Performance” in Querying Difference in Theatre History edited by Scott Magelssen, Ann Haugo, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84718-303-3
  • Merrick, Jeffery & Michael Sibalis. 2001. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York.
  • French Erotic Writings from the Ancien Régime to the Revolution by Wayne R. Dynes
  • Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0 Especially chapter 6 “Sapphic Sects and the Rites of Revolutoin, 1775-1800”
  • Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anandrine Sect

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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