Introduction -- The mythic mannish lesbian : Radclyffe Hall and the new woman / Esther Newton -- 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" : and intertextual study of H.D. and Adrienne Rich / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Comment on Friedman's "I go were 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 readers / Jean E. Kennard -- Homosexuality, homophobia, and revolution : notes toward an understanding of the Cuban lesbian and gay male experience, part I / Lourdes Arguelles and B. Ruby Rich -- Discrimination 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 -- 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" / Ann R. Bristow and Pam Langford Pearn -- Reply tgo Sandoval and Bristow and Pearn / Susan Krieger -- The politics of transliteration : lesbian personal narratives / Bonnie Zimmerman -- 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