Damned WomenWhile homosexual men are legion in the history of French literature and criticism, until now no critic writing in French or English has given the same sort of attention to lesbians. Waelti Walters covers two hundred years of fiction, beginning with the publication of Diderot's The Nun in 1796 and ending with present day lesbian writers Jocelyne Franois, Mireille Best, Hlne de Monferrand, and the authors connected to Genevive Pastre's lesbian