For instance, the masculinized, sexually transgressive
tribade of early modernity might look similar to Freud's female invert, and yet the differences between the
tribade and the invert suggest that these two figures do not constitute a single recognizable type (89).
I roused Zero's suspicions because I began to behave too much like a woman and he started to watch me warily for signs of the
tribade" (98).
Robic discusses the vocabulary that developed around lesbianism, with words such as "
tribade" and "gougriotte" appearing in dictionaries of the period.
Repare-se, por exemplo, no caso da "
tribade", figura que poe em causa tanto a ordem de genero, pela associacao a atributos ativos, questionadores da posicao submissa do feminino, bem como afronta a ordem heterossexista inquestionavel, por um desejo pelo mesmo sexo (17).
The only term with more transhistorical and transcultural reach, I argued, is "
tribade," because many languages and cultures conceptualize women who desired and had sex with women as engaging in the rubbing of bodies that in English is known as tribadism.
Later, Leo recalls "le soir ou [...] il avait paye dix francs pour voir des jupons sales et une femme flasque dans l'attitude d'une malade passee au speculum, subissant les caresses d'une
tribade d'occasion" (164).
Hence the male feminisme [femininity] whereby the man becomes patiens {passive l as well as agens [activel, and the woman a
tribade, a votary of mas-cula [man-like] Sappho." (59) Burton not only pathologizes nonnormative genders and sexualities, but he also weds these "perversions" to race.
[27] Hamilton's next lover applies a different term to her body, again through epistolary exchange--this time materially informed by Hamilton's shifting identity: she is first referred to by a male pronoun, but Fielding largely encapsulates this relationship with feminine words, thereby enforcing an interpretation of Hamilton as a
tribade. He calls her "Mrs.
Partial contents: "Categories Clashing," by Mart Ahari (Vienna, Austria); "Born Queer Dear Doctors," by Eli se Mbessakwini (Melbourne, Australia); "LGBT and I?" by Betsy Driver (New Jersey, US); "Tim and Tim, Tim or Tim," by Chen Chuanxi (China); "What is a
Tribade Anyway, and What Does She Have To Do with Tribe8?
(Again, you'll have to forgive the anachronistic term; Sade would have used "
tribade." (11)
Crucial to this picture of toleration is the cultural distinction between the
tribade and what Traub calls the femme.
tribade - a female homosexual