Simons P
Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1357.
J Homosex. 1994;27(1-2):81-122. doi: 10.1300/J082v27n01_05.
Current conceptualizations of sexual identity in the West are not necessarily useful to an historian investigating "lesbianism" in the social history and visual representations of different periods. After an overview of Renaissance documents treating donna con donna relations which examines the potentially positive effects of condemnation and silence, the paper focuses on Diana, the goddess of chastity, who bathed with her nymphs as an exemplar of female bodies preserved for heterosexual, reproductive pleasures. Yet the self-sufficiency and bodily contact sometimes represented in images of this secluded all-female gathering might suggest "deviant" responses from their viewers.
西方当前对性身份的概念化理解，对于研究不同时期社会历史和视觉表现中的“女同性恋主义”的历史学家来说，不一定有用。在概述了文艺复兴时期论述女性之间关系的文献，并考察了谴责和沉默可能产生的积极影响之后，本文聚焦于贞洁女神狄安娜，她与仙女们一同沐浴，是为异性恋生殖愉悦而保存的女性身体的典范。然而，在这个隐秘的全女性聚会的图像中有时所表现出的自给自足和身体接触，可能会让观者产生“越轨”的反应。
