Table of Contents:
  • What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist criticism
  • Perverse reading : the lesbian appropriation of literature / Bonnie Zimmerman
  • Two feminist criticisms : a necessary conflict? / Anne Charles
  • Toward a definition of the lesbian literary imagination / Marilyn R Farwell
  • Gender as performance : Shakespearean ambiguity and the lesbian reader / Paula Bennett
  • Waitng for stonewall / Sarah Dreher
  • Subverting closure : compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory endings in middle-class British women's novels / Diana L Swanson
  • Reading Deephaven as a lesbian text / Judith Fetterley
  • Sexual narrative in the fiction of Djuna Barnes / Carolyn J. Allen
  • Modernity and lesbian identity in the later works of Nicole Brossard / Marthe Rosenfeld
  • From isolation to diversity ; self and communities in twentieth-century lesbian novels / Linnea A. Stenson
  • Zami and the politics of plural identity / Erin G. Carlston
  • Separatism and feminist utopian fiction / Diane Griffin Crowder
  • Liberating laughter : comedic form in some lesbian novels / Louise Kawada
  • Lesbian intertextuality / Elaine Marks
  • Mirrors and likeness : a lesbian aesthetic in the making / Toni A.H. McNaron
  • Poetic politics : How the Amazons took the Acropolis / Jeffner Allen
  • Under the covers : a synesthesia of desire (lesbian translations) / Alice Parker.