The Lesbian Issue
Essays from Signs
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The Lesbian Issue
Essays from Signs
This important collection of articles reflects the growing recognition that the study of women whose primary relation is to other women makes a vital contribution to feminist scholarship. A milestone in lesbian studies - a field often trivialized, ignored, or denied, and always controversial - this volume enriches and enlarges our understanding of women in culture and society.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman
Esther Newmann
Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case of Cross-Gender Females
Evelyn Blackwood
Distance and Desire: English Boarding-School Friendships
Martha Vicinus
"The Thing Not Named": Willa Cather as a Lesbian Writer
Sharon O’Brien
Sapphistries
Susan Gubar
"I go where I love": An Intertextual Study of H. D. and Adrienne Rich
Susan Stanford Friedman
Comment on Friedman’s "I go where I love": An Intertextual Study of H. D. and Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Reply to Rich
Susan Stanford Friedman
Displacing the Phallic Subject: Wittig’s Lesbian Writing
Namascar Shaktini
Ourself Behind Ourself: A Theory for Lesbian Writers
Jean E. Kennard
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Revolution: Notes toward an Unsderstanding of the Cuban Lesbian and Gay Male Experience, Part I
Lourdes Arguelles and B. Ruby Rich
Descrimination Against Lesbians in the Work Force
Martin P. Levine and Robin Leonard
Sexuality, Class, and Conflict in a Lesbian Workplace
Kathleen M. Weston and Lisa B. Rofel
REVIEW ESSAYS
Lesbian Identity and Community: Recent Social Science Literature
Susan Krieger
Comment on Krieger’s "Lesbian Identity and Community: Recent Social Science Literature"
Chela Sandoval
Comment on Krieger’s "Lesbian Identity and Community: Recent Social Science Literature"The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman
Esther Newmann
Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case of Cross-Gender Females
Evelyn Blackwood
Distance and Desire: English Boarding-School Friendships
Martha Vicinus
"The Thing Not Named": Willa Cather as a Lesbian Writer
Sharon O’Brien
Sapphistries
Susan Gubar
"I go where I love": An Intertextual Study of H. D. and Adrienne Rich
Susan Stanford Friedman
Comment on Friedman’s "I go where I love": An Intertextual Study of H. D. and Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Reply to Rich
Susan Stanford Friedman
Displacing the Phallic Subject: Wittig’s Lesbian Writing
Namascar Shaktini
Ourself Behind Ourself: A Theory for Lesbian Writers
Jean E. Kennard
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Revolution: Notes toward an Unsderstanding of the Cuban Lesbian and Gay Male Experience, Part I
Lourdes Arguelles and B. Ruby Rich
Descrimination Against Lesbians in the Work Force
Martin P. Levine and Robin Leonard
Sexuality, Class, and Conflict in a Lesbian Workplace
Kathleen M. Weston and Lisa B. Rofel
REVIEW ESSAYS
Lesbian Identity and Community: Recent Social Science Literature
Susan Krieger
Comment on Krieger’s "Lesbian Identity and Community: Recent Social Science Literature"
Chela Sandoval
Ann R. Bristow and Pam Langford Pearn
Reply to Sandoval and Bristow and Pearn
Susan Krieger
The Politics of Transliteration: Lesbian Personal Narratives
Bonnie Zimmerman
ARCHIVES
Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Sister Benedetta Carlini
Judith C. Brown
The Military and Lesbians during the McCarthy Years
Allan Bérubé and John D’Emilio
INDEX