https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1172 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1592 Anne Lister (1791-1840), diarist and Yorkshire gentry woman, is often dubbed “the first modern lesbian.” She was also an avid reader of the Classics, despite being denied a formal education in Greek and Latin due to her gender. This article explores Lister’s reading of one Classical author in particular, the 1st c. CE Latin poet Martial. Drawing on her diaries and other private papers, I argue that she sought out and read Martial’s poems “queerly,” for the purposes of self-edification, self-pleasure, flirtation, and even seduction. ven., 25 avril 2025 11:50:50 +0200 jeu., 27 nov. 2025 15:43:01 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1592 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1168 This paper offers a close reading of the ancient Greek and Roman texts which Rachel Maines (The Technology of Orgasm, 1999) used as evidence for therapeutic masturbation in the ancient world, and thus presented as precursors for the vibrator. Examining the evidence of the Hippocratic corpus, Celsus, Soranus and Galen, it shows that the lines of transmission between the ancient sources, and in their later reception, are far more complex than her work suggests, and thus challenges her claims for the normality of massage to orgasm in Western medicine. While Maines herself has subsequently insisted that she proposed a ‘hypothesis’ rather than a ‘fact’, in the popular reception of her book this distinction has been almost entirely overlooked, leading to an obscuring of female agency – both as patients, and as healers. lun., 20 juin 2022 11:28:24 +0200 jeu., 12 oct. 2023 14:34:02 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1168