Should I use a contemporary, twentieth-century definition? And if so, which one? Women who are sexually attracted to other women or women who became lesbians through feminism? Or should I use a much broader definition, one that includes the romantic friends movement – women who were women-identified, who had affectionate and loving relationships with other women but may not actually have had sex due to the repressive nature of the era? Should I include sworn sisters [as in China] and berdaches? Should I include transvestites? Should I include spinsters? . . . My own bias is toward women-identified women, whether they call themselves lesbians or not, whether they had sex or not. To impose today’s standards on earlier eras limits our vision and our history.