Table of Contents

Loaves and fishes, hotel room, Cherry Smyth; staging the scene - representation of gender and the butch/femme dynamic in contemporary performance, Nina Rapi; on butch identity, Sue Ellen Case; the knowledge of the femme, Heather Findlay; "The Marriage of Heaven y Hielo" (poem), "Sailor" (poem), Gerry Gomez Pearlberg; "Econobox" (prose poem), Linda Smukler; butch types, Judith Halberstam; hairpins and piercings - the making of neo-femme visibility, Lisa Walker; "Alice-Hunting" (fiction), Esther Newton; "femme" femininity and the problematics of masculinity, Lynda Hart; public discourse and the re-closeting of butch/femme lives, Shane Phelan; the hegemonic regulation of butch performance, Anna Marie Smith; untitled fiction, Holly Hughes; Sheila dances with Sheila - a femme-to-femme interview, Lois Weaver; a tale of two Annies, Emma Donaghue; untouchability and vulnerability - stone butchess as emotional style, Ann Cvetkovich; Harlem renaissance's Gladys Bentley and gendered lesbian blues, Laura Harris; theorizing queer butch identity, Liz Crocker; gendered desire and bisexual femme subjectivity, Clare Hemmings; butch in the sheets / femme in the sheets, Sharon Holland; femme to femme - a love story, Clare Whatling; butch and femme contradictions in Greek culture, Nina Rapi; girl talk - femmes in discussion, Catherine Bewley and Louise Carolin.