The trobairitz are women poets who lived in the south of France, flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and composed in Occitan, the language of the region (trobairitz is the Occitan feminine form for troubadour). Scholars count twenty named women and a good number of anonymous works in the woman’s voice; the corpus of lyrics is not large (roughly 50 works in all). The topics discussed in these lyrics range from themes of love to reflections on childbearing to political and religious issues of the day. The women make up roughly 5% of the lyricists in medieval Occitan, a distinct minority in a male-dominated literary culture. Nonetheless, they succeed in making the women’s voice heard clearly, across a variety of lyric genres.