Représentations et pratiques d'une expérience individuelle anomique (1940-1944)

Many cases of homosexuality, when brought up in court, reveal some degree of bisexual ambiguity. An incrimination for lesbianism - in Vichy France - documents the way in which both insatiable heterosexuality and homosexuality are targeted as deviant behaviour. The description of sexual experiences, at once sensual and obscene, shows how a woman, in control of her sexuality, is immediately stigmatised as dangerous and 'manly'.