Can lesbians be misogynists?

Can lesbians be misogynists? 

A brief introduction of two lesbian novelists, the British Mary Renault (1905-1983) and The French-Belgian Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), by a contemporary writer Agnes Bushell, suggests that this is a distinct possibility.

According to Bushell, Renault and Yourcenar both created idealized homosexual characters, but they were all inevitably male. Strangely, they both seemed to despise their female characters, all of whom, says Bushell, "are either absent or loathsome."

Moreover, they go back in time to ancient Greek history and mythology to model their heroic gay male characters on.

In other words, their creative inspirations remarkably match those of gay male writers of their era, like Arthur Symons. 

It could be that to come out openly as a lesbian would've been risky for both women, and to champion lesbian characters would've got negative press or no press at all. Safer to exalt same sex male love than same sex female romance? 

The titles of some of the novels by Renault and Yourcenar indicate the presence of male personas. Here are two samples:

Chinese ambiguity

While two of James Joyce's most difficult of novels, Finnegans Wake and Ulysses, have enjoyed near-best-selling status (sale of Finnegans exceeded 8000, while Ulyssees sold 85,000 copies upon publication in 1994), the Chinese ministry of culture refuses a show of Andy Warhol's famous 10 paintings of Mao.

Is this an evidence of Chinese ambiguity?

Conversely,

What the Chinese read is Joyce in translation--can't imagine the quirky Joyceisms retaining their unique lexical flavor in translation--and my hunch is maybe what the Chinese read are watered down to what they can digest, i.e. censored in any which way. 

While words can be tinkered with in translation, a painting can't be altered, let alone 10 paintings.

Below is the 10th; it's the Mao drawn in the darkest of tones.

The jewel in the loin

Can you tell that the young lady in the image is about to embark on an erotic adventure?

I think I can, by glancing at the implement she is apparently trying to girt around, what I assume are her loins.

The image is an illustration from the French enlightenment philosopher and writer Denis Diderot's book named The Indiscreet Jewel. Women speak boldly and frankly in the book about their sexual desires and about what excite them sexually.

Published in 1748 in France, The Indiscreet Jewel is said to be a precursor of Eve Angler's Vagina Monologues. 

Diderot was an ace enlightenment thinker and was known for confronting courageously the unconscionable and uncomfortable issues of his times. One of the issues was an openness about women's sexuality. But he was also an outspoken critic of religion, racism and slavery. 

His positions on most political, religious, social and sexual orthodoxies made him very unpopular in the eyes of the Catholic Church. He was denied a burial spot.

On the eve of his 300th birthday, French President Francois Hollande has decided to honor Diderot posthumously by granting him a symbolic reburial in the Pantheon a massive neo-Classical Church in the Latin quarter of Paris.