Table of Contents

1. Martha Vicinus Introduction PART I: EXPLORATIONS 2. Gloria T. Hull OResearching Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Personal and Literary PerspectiveO 3. Lisa Moore, OSomething more tender still than friendship: Romantic Friendship in Early Nineteenth-Century EnglandO 4. Susan Cahn, OFrom OMuscle MollO to the OButchO Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism and Homophobia in US WomenOs SportsO 5. Leisa D. Meyer, OCreating G. I. Jane: The Regulation of Sexuality and Sexual Behavior in the WomenOs Army Corps During World War IIO 6. Elizabeth Meese, OWhen Virginia Looked at Vita, What Did She See; or Lesbian: Feminist: WomanNWhatOs the Differ(e/a)nce?O 7. Anne Harrmann, OImitations of Marriage: Crossdressed Couples in Contemporary Lesbian FictionO INTERMISSION 8. Tessa Boffin and Jean Fraser, OStolen Glances: Lesbians Take PhotographsO 9. Tee Corinne, OOn Sexual ArtO PART II: AFFIRMATIONS 10. Elizabeth Wilson, OForbidden LoveO 11. Heather Findlay, OFreudOs OFetishismO and the Lesbian Dildo DebatesO 12. Penelope Engelbrecht, OOLifting Belly is a LanguageO: The Postmodern Lesbian SubjectO 13. Makeda Silvera, OMan Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean LesbiansO

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An overview of the field of lesbian studies, tracing its history and providing a summation of current work.

About the Author

MARTHA VICINUS is Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English, Women's Studies, and History and Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Industrial Muse and Independent Women, and editor Suffer and Be Still and A Widening Sphere.