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Abate, Michelle Ann, 155 , 160 biomythography, 169 ACT UP Oral History project, 183 celebrities, 182 activism. See also consciousness-raising ; comics/graphic narratives, 221 , 223 , feminisms/feminist studies; LGBT/ 225 – 226 lesbian and gay studies coming-out stories, 122 – 124 , 177 – 179 , empowerment and, 141 190 , 222 , 223 , 225 – 226 Gay Liberation movement/gay and discovery through reading, 4 – 7 lesbian rights movement, 14n4 , 32 , 37 , essays, 180 190 , 213 , 215 , 223 generic disruption, 169 – 170 , 180 – 181 , in India, 61 , 62 182 , 186n53 legislation and, 65 , 70 journals and letters, 170 – 176 . See also lesbian feminism, 33 journals and letters lesbian terminology, 14n4 , 220 poetry as, 170 – 172 , 174 poetry and, 190 – 196 , 198 , 200 political look back, 179 popular fi ction and, 156 – 158 roman à clef, 146 , 170 , 176 , 181 post-1960s, 32 – 33 sex/gender categories of, 181 – 182 scholarship and, 42 , 205 social media and oral histories, 182 – 183 Aelred of Rievaulx, 81 autographics, 221 . See also comics and Afary, Janet, 64 graphic narratives (lesbian) Ahmed, Sara, 161 , 231 autonomy and equality, 98 , 99 – 100 , 103 , AIDS, 179 , 182 , 187n69 , 196 140 – 142 Alarcón, Norma, 46 Aylmer, John Alderman, Naomi An Harborowe for Faithfull and Trewe Disobedience , 209 Subjects , 93 – 94 , 96 Allison, Dorothy, 9 , 181 Alther, Lisa, 181 Bambara, Toni Cade, 48– 49 , 194 – 195 Amazons, 89 Bannon, Ann, 160 Anderson, Benedict, 63 Barker, Jane Andreadis, Harriette, 95 “The Unnacountable Wife,” 100 , Anne, queen of Great Britain, 102 – 103 101 – 102 , 103 , 116 , 117 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 9 , 196 – 198 . See also This Barnes, Djuna, 142 , 145 , 188 Bridge Called My Back Ladies Almanack , 141 , 149 , 176 Borderlands/La Frontera , 197 – 198 Nightwood , 141 archive (lesbian), 113 Barney, Natalie, 142 , 148 Atkinson, Ti-Grace, 53 Barreca, Regina, 124 autobiography and memoir (lesbian), Barrett, Eileen, 144 169 – 183 . See also fi ction Barros, Carolyn, 221 bildungsroman, 142 , 211 – 212 Barthes, Roland, 130 – 131

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Barzun, Jacques, 94 cancer memoirs, 187n69 , 192 Bates, Catherine, 98 Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 89 Batwoman , 225 capitalism, 49 , 51 , 155 , 212 Baucom, Ian, 63 Caselli, Daniela, 176 Baudelaire, Charles, 214 Caserio, Robert, 164 Beal, M.F. Castillo, Ana, 46 Angel Dance , 156 Castle, Terry, 38 – 39 , 125 , 160 Bechdel, Alison The Literature of Lesbianism , 9 Are You My Mother? , 228 – 229 “The Professor,” 180 autobiography, 180 – 181 Cather, Willa, 145 , 174 – 180 Dykes to Watch Out For , 205 , 223 , 229 Catherine of Siena, 87 – 88 Fun Home , 5 – 6 , 219 , 227 – 229 Cavendish, Margaret Bennett, Judith M., 2 , 80 Convent of Pleasure , 98 , 99 , 103 Benning, Sadie, 199 censorship, 140 , 141 , 159 , 164 , 214 Benns, Susanna, 160 Charke, Charlotte Benstock, Shari, 145 , 148 A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Berni, Christine, 149 Charke , 109 Berry, Mary, 113 Chatterjee, Partha, 64 bildungsroman, 211 – 212 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 89 Binhammer, Katherine, 109 – 110 Chicana/o identity, 194 , 195 – 196 biopower, 146 – 150 chronology of lesbian literature, xvii – xxxii bisexuality, 70 , 148 , 205 , 206 , 209 , 230 Chugtai, Ismat Bishop, Elizabeth, 174 “The Quilt,” 66 Black women, Black feminism, 6 , 48 , 49 – 52 , Churchill, Sarah Jennings (duchess of 57n16 , 58n17 , 192 , 209 . See also Lorde, Marlborough), 103 Audre ; race ; women of color feminism Chute, Hillary, 221 Bono, Chastity/Chaz, 181 – 182 Cixous, Hélène, 27 Book of Manners (Le Livre de Manières), 82 Cliff, Michelle Book of Penitence , 81 No Telephone to Heaven , 210 – 211 Bornstein, Kate, 181 Cohler, Deborah, 144 Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 181 Colclough, Stephen, 114 Bradley, Katherine. See Field, Michael Collins, Patricia Hill, 50 Brand, Dionne Colonial Penal Code, 61 What We All Long For , 205 – 206 , 208 colonialism/postcolonialism. See also Brophy, Brigid, 206 nationalism Brown, Rita Mae, 181 normative gender regime of, 210 Brown, Wendy, 24 Orientalism, 62 – 63 Browne, F.W. Stella, 143 queer diaspora, 71 – 73 Bryher (Winnifred Ellerman), 142 , 148 , 175 same-sex desire/homoeroticism, 60 – 62 , Budge, Belinda, 155 64 , 65 – 66 butch/femme, 33 , 38 , 39 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 164 . temporality and, 24 See also gender Combahee River Collective (CRC) butches (lesbian), 38 , 39 , 40 , 55 . Statement, 49 – 52 , 57n16 , 58n17 See also gender comics and graphic narratives (lesbian), Butler, Judith 219 – 232 Gender Trouble , 37 – 38 , 40 , 149 Bechdel’s Fun Home infl uence, 226 – 229 lesbian categories, 27 , 205 lesbian continuum, 229 – 231 queer theory, 11 terminology and development of, 220 – 222 Butler, Lady Eleanor, 111 visibility of, 223 – 226 Comics Code Authority, 224 Califi a, Pat, 207 coming-out stories, 122 – 124 , 177 – 179 , 190 , Camper, Jennifer 222 , 223 , 225 – 226 Juicy Mother , 225 bildungsroman, 211 – 212 248

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Coming Out Stories, The , 178 DiMassa, Diane commodifi cation of homosexuality, 163 . Hothead Paisan , 223 – 224 See also popular culture Dinshaw, Carolyn, 22 , 130 consciousness-raising. See also activism discrimination, intersectionality and, 52 political act of, 49 – 52 diversity and difference, 208 – 211 . See also resistance and, 53 race ; women of color feminism sharing experience, 49 , 55 – 56 , 178 Doan, Laura, 25 , 147 , 207 Cooper, Edith. See Field, Michael Dolan, Jill, 182 Crawford, Julie, 96 domestic space, 66 – 68 , 73 Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 50 , 51 – 52 , 194 Doniger, Wendy, 61 crime fi ction. See detective fi ction (lesbian) Donne, John Criminal Law Amendment Act “Elegy Sapho to Philaenis,” 97 – 98 , 99 (England), 124 Donoghue, Emma criminality. See legal issues Frog Music , 210 , 214 cross-dressing historical fi ction, 214 – 215 early modern literature, 96 Hood , 205 , 207 , 211 , 216 eighteenth century, 117 Landing , 209 , 215 medieval, 86 – 88 lesbian content and popularity, 205 in Orlando , 107 Life Mask , 214 – 215 twenty-fi rst century, 210 Stir Fry , 211 Cruse, Howard, 223 Doolittle, Hilde. See H.D. Cvetkovich, Ann, 20 , 161 , 182 , 226 – 227 Dubois, Page, 14n11 Duffy, Maureen Damer, Anne, 112 – 113 Alchemy , 210 , 213 , 214 Daniélou, Alain, 61 Capital , 210 Daughters of Bilitis, 162 Illuminations , 212 Dawesar, Abha Love Child , 206 Babyji , 208 – 209 The Microcosm , 210 De Graffenreid v General Motors , 52 Duffy, Stella (Saz Martin) de Lauretis, Teresa, 11 Beneath the Blonde , 157 – 158 , 165 de Man, Paul, 21 Duggan, Lisa, 145 death, fi gure of/dead lesbian, 122 – 124 , 126 , Duncker, Patricia, 210 127 – 130 , 131 – 133 . See also spectrality Dyer, Jamaica, 225 and the occult Dykes on Dykes (Kremmler), 220 defi nitions and terminology anti-identitarianism, 36 – 39 early modern period, 93 – 103 anti-normative, 39 female rulers, 93 – 94 comics and graphic narrative, 220 metamorphic practices, 95 – 97 , historical context, 14n4 , 19 99 – 100 , 103 lesbian continuum, 33 – 34 monarchical politics and the sapphic, lesbian literature, 1 , 12 – 14 , 94 , 104n11 , 100 – 103 204 – 208 , 220 sapphic representation in, 9– 10 preoccupying problem of, 1 – 2 Edelman, Lee, 19 , 22 queer, 2 , 20 , 28n10 , 139 Edgeworth, Maria DeJean, Joan, 2 Angelina , 117 – 118 D’Emilio, John, 145 , 147 , 160 Belinda , 115 Derrida, Jacques, 23 , 26 education, 142 detective fi ction (lesbian), 155 – 158 . See also eighteenth century, 107 – 118 popular culture lesbian literature in, 114 diaspora. See migration and diaspora lesbian lived experience, 108 , Dickinson, Emily, 171 , 182 112 – 114 , 126 Dido (queen of Carthage), 89 Orlando (Woolf) in, 107 dildo, 109 , 110 , 119n28 , 207 versions of Sappho, 110 – 111 249

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Eisenstein, Zillah R., 49 fi ction. See also autobiography and memoir ; Eisner, Will, 220 comics and graphic narratives ; detective Elizabeth 1 (queen of England), 93 – 94 , fi ction ; erotic writing ; pulp fi ction 97 , 103 diaspora and homoeroticism in, 68 – 71 Ellis, Havelock, 148 difference and diversity, 208 – 211 enfranchisement, 140 – 142 global fi ction, 62 , 68 – 71 equality. See autonomy and equality lesbian identity in, 204 – 208 Erasmus, 19 modernist, 8 – 9 , 107 , 141 , 143 – 144 , 147 , erotic writing, 180 , 193 – 194 , 197 – 198 , 207 148 – 149 Etienne de Fougères, 82 post-lesbian fi ction, 207 eugenics, 144 , 146 – 150 . See also nationalism queer sexualities in world, 62 exile. See metic consciousness twentieth and twenty-fi rst century, exoticism, 63 . See also Orientalism 204 – 216 fi eld imaginaries, 32 Fabian, Johannes, 24 Field, Michael (Bradley and Cooper), 122 , Faderman, Lillian, 5 , 159 125 , 126 , 128 , 131 – 132 false-consciousness, 53 , 54 “The Mummy Invokes His Soul,” 130 , 131 family, 208 , 219 , 227 , 228 , 230 , 231 Fielding, Henry Farwell, Marilyn, 11 The Female Husband , 109 Feinberg, Leslie fi n de siècle, 122 – 133 Drag King Dreams , 210 , 213 , 215 , 216 fi gure of death/dead lesbian, 122 – 124 , Stone Butch Blues , 181 , 210 126 , 132 – 133 Transgender Warriors , 181 lesbian spectrality, 125 – 126 female masculinity. See also gender sapphic verse, 131 – 132 detective fi ction, 156 Flanner, Janet, 142 , 173 eighteenth century, 113 , 114 , 115 Forney, Ellen eroticism and gender, 40 Marbles , 229 false-consciousness and, 53 Foster, Jeanette “female husband,” 109 Sex Variant Women in Literature , 4 – 5 , 10 medieval, 81 – 82 , 86 – 87 , 88 – 89 , 92n26 Foucault, Michel misogyny and, 147 disciplinary regimes, 27 femininity, false-consciousness and, 53 historical time, 30n24 feminisms/feminist studies. See also activism ; infl uence, 20 , 52 consciousness-raising ; lesbian literary power, 52 , 54 , 140 criticism sexuality/ies, 60 – 61 , 139 , 147 Black women, Black feminism, 6 , 48 , Franson, Leanne, 230 49 – 52 , 57n16 , 58n17 , 192 , 209 Freeman, Elizabeth, 215 crime novels, 157 Freud, Sigmund, 175 . See also psychoanalysis gender in, 35 friendship, between women intersectionality, 50 – 52 , 194 , 209 “black woman/white woman,” 192 Iran, 64 – 65 defi nitions and, 2 , 33 key works (list of), 34 early modern/modern, 93 , 94 , 96 , 98 – 99 lesbian coming out and, 177 , 178 – 179 eighteenth century, 107 , 112 , 113 , lesbian criticism, 6 , 10 , 14n4 115 , 116 lesbian exclusion, 32 – 33 passionate (medieval), 82 – 86 , 173 lesbian feminism, 38 , 53 – 54 , 144 , 156 , policing of, 143 157 , 160 , 179 – 180 , 204 reading, 8 , 16n38 lesbian/queer terminology, 41 – 42 romantic, 12 , 13 , 126 , 134n27 moralism of, 54 – 55 second-wave, 179 , 191 , 192 Galford, Ellen, 212 , 214 third-wave, 193 , 195 Gallop, Jane “U.S. Third World Feminism,” 47 Feminist Accused of Sexual women of color feminism, 6 , 32 , 46 – 47 Harassment , 179 250

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Ganesh, Chitra, 225 Heresies gay and lesbian studies. See LGBT/lesbian “Sex Issue,” 54 and gay studies hermaphrodite, 108 Gay Comix , 223 Hernandez, Jaime, 220 gender. See also butch/femme ; female heteronormativity/heterosexism. See also masculinity homonormativity ; homophobia/ binaries, 25 , 35 , 211 homophobic ; normativity/ defi nitions, 37 – 38 anti-normativity ; patriarchy in eighteenth century, 108 – 109 colonial, 210 erotic dimensions of, 40 , 210 – 211 comic/graphic narratives and, 227 , medieval female sexuality, 81 – 82 231 – 232 regendering of crime genre, 156 , 158 heteronormative reproduction, 24 taxonomic separation from sexuality, lesbian eroticism and, 96 34 – 35 , 36 , 39 , 40 lesbian/queer terminology and, 1 – 2 , 8 , 20 , theorizing of (survey of), 37 26 , 28n10 , 79 , 90 , 104n11 Georges, Nicole J. medieval, 25 Calling Dr Laura , 230 , 231 nationalism and, 63 , 70 , 215 global fi ction, 62 , 68 – 71 popular fi ction subversion of, 155 , globalization of LGBT studies, 62 , 64 . 156 , 164 See also LGBT/lesbian and gay studies resistance to, 49 , 51 , 58n20 . See also Gloeckner, Phoebe, 222 consciousness-raising Goddard, William, 94 romance plots and, 4 Gomez, Jewelle threat to, 115 The Gilda Stories , 209 , 214 time, 19 . See also time Gopal, Priyamvada, 64 unrecorded history and, 214 Gopinath, Gayatri, 65 – 66 , 209 of white feminisms, 194 – 195 Gower, John heterosexual categorization, “Iphis and Ianthe,” 84 – 85 medieval, 79 – 80 Graphic Details : Confessional Comics by heterotemporality, 215 . See also time Jewish Women exhibition, 222 Highsmith, Patricia (Morgan) graphic narratives and comics, 219 – 232 Carol/The Price of Salt , 160 , 211 Greenwich Village (NYC), 145 Hildegard of Bingen, 81 , 82 Grimké, Angelina Weld, 171 – 172 Hilty, Joan, 225 Grosz, Elizabeth, 27 , 31n41 Hirschfeld, Magnus, 226 historical fi ction, 213 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 142 , 148 , 175 history, theories of, 19 – 20 , 21 – 22 , 23 – 24 , 27 Paint it Today , 146 Hollibaugh, Amber, 180 Hadewijch (Flemish beguine), 83 , 88 “What We’re Rollin around in Bed With,” Halberstam, Judith 54 – 56 , 177 – 178 Female Masculinity , 40 – 41 Hollywood, Amy, 88 Halevi, Jehudah, 128 homo/heterosexual categorization, 36 – 42 Hall, Radclyffe homonationalism, 64 . See also nationalism fi nancial independence of, 142 homonormativity, 95 , 96 , 98 . See also séances and, 126 heteronormativity/heterosexism The Well of Loneliness , 4 , 5 , 7 , 8 , 140 , homophobia/homophobic, 33 , 37 , 48 , 141 , 144 62 , 64 – 65 , 71 , 141 , 159 , 198 , 207 , Halperin, David, 90 212 , 215 . See also heteronormativity/ Hamer, Diane, 155 heterosexism Hankins, Leslie, 141 Hopkinson, Nalo Harris, Bertha The Salt Roads , 209 , 214 Lover , 216 Horsley, Lee, 156 Hastings, March humanism, 24 Three Women , 162 – 163 Hunt, Margaret, 108 251

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identity, identity categories Lister’s journals, 114 , 126 , 172 , 214 activism and, 14n4 medieval nuns’ letters, 82 – 83 “acts versus identities” debate, 20 Michael Field’s, 131 – 132 categories/biopolitics, 146 – 150 Joy of Lesbian Sex, The , 207 discovery through reading, 4 – 7 Juicy Mother collections, 225 disidentifi cation, 149 – 150 Julian of Norwich, 87 historiography and, 24 – 25 identitarianism, pro and anti, 11 , 27 , Kamasutra , 61 – 62 31n41 , 37 – 39 , 42 , 58n20 Kaminer, Michael, 222 identity knowledges, 10 – 11 Kay, Jackie, 180 – 181 , 210 identity politics, 32 , 43n5 , 50 , 58n20 , 198 , Keller, Yvonne, 162 205 . See also intersectionality Kelly, Gary, 117 lesbian as subsumed, or not, 10 – 14 Kern, Sandy, 5 lesbian continuum, 8 , 33 – 34 , 173 , 206 , 229 King, Kathryn, 116 lesbianism-poetry//poetry-lesbianism, Kremmler, Katrin, 220 199 – 200 Kristeva, Julia, 215 nationalism and, 144 1960s exclusions, 33 , 43n5 Labé, Louise, 19 , 27n3 preoccupying problem of, 1 – 2 Ladder, The (Daughters of Bilitis), 162 Sappho’s infl uence, 3 – 4 Ladies of Llangollen (Butler and sexuality studies and, 20 Ponsonby), 111 , 114 twenty-fi rst-century contestations, 204 – 208 language and translation ideology multilingual, 197 limiting power of, 52 sexuality, 60 – 61 popular culture disruption of, 155 “theory” discussion, 25 – 26 queer temporality and, 22 , 24 Lanser, Susan S., 108 , 118 queer theory and, 26 Larsen, Nella, 7 , 142 , 145 INCITE! , 56n3 Passing , 7 , 151n21 independence. See autonomy and equality Latin America, 196 India Latour, Bruno, 24 diversity, 208 – 209 Leavitt, Sarah same-sex desire/homoeroticism, 60 , Tangles , 221 , 230 61 – 62 , 65 – 67 Lee, Vernon, 122 – 123 , 130 tradition and modernity, 67 – 68 , 70 , 71 legal issues intersectionality, 50 – 52 , 194 , 209 . See also (non-)criminality of lesbian sex, 65 , 109 , consciousness-raising 124 , 143 – 144 , 145 , 211 inversion, gender or sexual, 36 , 81 , 144 , colonialism and sexuality, 61 – 62 , 65 147 , 149 discrimination and Iran, 64 – 65 intersectionality, 51 – 52 Ireland, 211 women’s (in)dependence, 141 Lenau, Nikolaus, 128 Jagose, Annamarie, 132 , 161 , 216 lesbian continuum, 8 , 33 – 34 , 173 , Queer Theory , 42 206 , 229 Japanese yuri comics, 221 lesbian feminism. See under feminisms/ Jay, Karla, 179 – 180 feminist studies Jewishness, 127 , 128 , 177 , 181 , 189 , “lesbian-like,” 2 , 9 , 80 209 , 222 lesbian literary criticism. See also feminisms/ Joan of Arc, 88 – 89 feminist studies Jolly, Margaretta, 177 Anglo-American structures, 13 – 14 journals and letters bibliographic surveys (list of), 10 as autobiography, 170 – 176 comics culture ignored, 219 , 227 Damer and Berry’s letters, 113 pulp fi ction, 159 , 160 – 161 , 164 – 165

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subsumed (or not) in other Lynch, Lee, 160 identities, 10 – 14 Lyotard, Jean-François, 24 women of color (not) in, 6 , 10 lesbian literature. See also autobiography and MacDonald, Ann-Marie memoir ; early modern period ; eighteenth Fall on Your Knees , 208 , 210 , 214 century ; fi n de siècle ; Middle Ages ; The Way the Crow Flies , 205 , 208 modernism ; poetry ; popular culture macroclitoride (enlarged clitoris), 82 , 108 , 110 Anglo-American, 10 , 13 – 14 Mandeville, John, 89 Anglo-American (list of), 12 Manley, Delarivier chronology, xvii – xxxii The New Atlantis , 103 hidden nature of, 4 , 10 manners, medieval books of, 82 identity and, 204 – 208 . See also identity, Manusmriti (Laws of Manu) , 61 identity categories Marcus, Jane, 140 queer theoretical construct, 27 Marie de France reading/writing depicted in, 4 – 7 , Eliduc , 85 – 86 8 – 10 Married Women’s Property Act Sappho’s place, 3 – 4 (England), 142 “survival literature,” 159 , 166n28 Martin, Biddy, 39 , 170 , 177 terminology, 1 , 12 – 13 Martin, Saz. See Duffy, Stella as transtemporal, 28n5 . See also time Martindale, Kathleen, 207 lesbian postmortem, 127 . See also death, masculinity. See female masculinity fi gure of/dead lesbian Masham, Abigail Hill, 103 letters. See journals and letters Masters of American Comics exhibition, Levy, Amy 221 – 222 death of, 122 , 127 Maynwaring, Arthur, 103 “The Dream,” 128 – 129 , 130 McCabe, Susan, 25 “Epilogue,” 129 – 130 McCracken, Scott, 154 , 155 – 156 “Epitaph,” 127 McDermid, Val, 164 The Romance of a Shop , 123 – 124 Meaker, Marijane. See Packer, Vin writings of death, 123 – 124 , 127 – 130 Medd, Jodie, 126 , 143 – 144 LGBT/lesbian and gay studies, 11 , 14n4 , medical model, 147 . See also biopower 24 , 62 , 64 , 147 . See also queer studies/ medical, texts, medieval, 82 theory ; sexuality studies Mehta, Deepa Lightman, Sarah, 222 Fire , 60 , 65 – 67 Lister, Anne, 111 , 114 , 126 , 172 , 214 Merck, Mandy, 130 Lochrie, Karma, 25 , 118 metamorphic practices Lorde, Audre early modern, 95 – 97 , 99 – 100 , 103 The Cancer Journals , 187n69 medieval, 84 – 85 “Hard Love/Rock II,” 193 metic consciousness, 142 – 146 “Martha,” 194 Mew, Charlotte, 135n39 “master’s tools,” 47 , 193 – 194 , 195 , 205 Mexico-U.S. borderlands, 197 – 198 1973 National Book Award ceremony, Middle Ages, 79 – 90 190 – 191 cross-dressing, 86 – 88 overview, 9 , 192 – 194 gender transgression, 80 – 82 , 88 – 89 Sister Outsider , 193 – 194 passionate friendship, 82 – 86 Zami , 169 Middle East, 63 , 64 – 65 , 212 . See also Love, Heather, 125 , 163 , 227 Orientalism Lover’s Confession, The (Gower), 84 – 85 migration and diaspora, 66 , 68 – 73 , 209 Lowell, Amy, 142 Miller, Isabel Lunden, Doris, 5 Patience and Sarah , 214 , 215 Lyly, John Millett, Kate, 179 Gallathea , 97 Mitchell, Alice, 145

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modernism, modernity, 139 – 150 . See also 9/11, 212 , 215 postmodernism normativity/anti-normativity, 38 – 39 , 158 , biopower, 146 – 150 164 , 210 . See also heteronormativity enfranchisement and independence, 140 – 142 Obejas, Achy metic consciousness, 142 – 146 Days of Awe , 210 new modernist studies, 188 – 189 Memory Mambo , 205 , 209 tradition and modernity, 67 – 68 , 73 occult. See spectrality and the occult Moen, Erika, 230 O’Driscoll, Sally, 108 Moore, Lisa, 115 , 189 , 192 One Million Signatures campaign (Iran), 65 Mootoo, Shani oral histories, 182 – 183 Cereus Blooms at Night , 206 , 208 , 211 Orientalism, 62 – 63 , 64 – 65 , 66 . See also Out on Main Street , 204 colonialism/postcolonialism Valmiki’s Daughter , 216 neo-Orientalism, 66 Moraga, Cherríe. See also This Bridge Called Our Bodies, Ourselves , 178 My Back Ovid The Last Generation , 196 “Iphis and Ianthe” (Metamorphoses) , 84 , Loving in the War Years , 195 – 196 97 , 212 overview, 194 – 196 Waiting in the Wings , 196 Packer, Vin “What We’re Rollin around in Bed With,” Spring Fire , 160 , 161 – 162 , 165 54 – 56 , 177 – 178 Palmer, Paulina, 215 Morgan, Claire (Highsmith) pamphlets, eighteenth-century, 110 – 111 , 113 The Price of Salt/Carol , 160 , 211 Paris, community of women writers, Morrison, Toni 145 – 146 Sula , 8 parody, 149 – 150 Moulton, Louise Chandler, 122 passionate friendship (medieval), 82 – 86 . Mueller, Janel, 98 See also friendship, between women Muñoz, José Esteban, 22 , 149 – 150 , 200 Pater, Walter, 124 , 125 Munt, Sally R., 156 , 157 , 158 patriarchy Myles, Eileen, 182 , 199 – 200 enactment of femininity, 52 – 53 heteropatriarchal, 65 , 68 , 72 , 100 , 209 Nafi si, Azar (Reading Lolita in Tehran) , 65 lesbian enactment of, 208 – 209 narrative penitential manuals, 80 – 81 lesbian love not contained in, 116 personal as political, 50 , 53 , 58n20 , 178 , queer time and, 21 – 22 , 23 – 24 , 216 180 , 191 National Book Award (1973), 190 – 191 Philips, Katherine, 98 – 99 , 103 nationalism. See also colonialism/ photography, postmortem, 123 – 124 postcolonialism Pickford, Miss, 111 , 114 ethnoracial, 71 – 72 Piozzi, Hester, 111 , 112 – 113 eugenics, 144 Plain, Gill, 156 , 157 homoeroticism and, 63 – 64 , 66 – 67 , 70 – 71 , poetry. See also Anzaldúa, Gloria ; Lorde, 143 – 144 Audre ; Moraga, Cherríe ; Rich, queers and terrorism confl ated, 215 Adrienne ; individual poets reproduction, 108 as autobiography, 170 – 172 , 174 Nestle, Joan of death (fi n de siècle), 127 – 130 A Restricted Country , 180 early modern, 97 – 99 “New Ballad” (attrib. Maynwaring), 103 lesbianism-poetry//poetry-lesbianism, New Journalism, 180 188 – 190 , 199 – 200 New York Radical Women, 178 lyric love poetry, 19 , 27n3 Newman, Lesléa, 208 medieval love, 83 – 85 Newton, Esther, 147 in Orlando , 9 Niccholes, Alexander, 94 Sappho’s contributions, 3 – 4 254

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Poletti, Anna, 221 race. See also Black women, Black feminism ; pomosexuality, 210 This Bridge Called My Back ; women Ponsonby, Sarah, 111 of color feminism Pope, Alexander class and, 10 , 208 “Eloisa and Abelard,” 117 consciousness-raising, 50 – 51 , 55 – 56 “Sappho to Phaon” (Ovid), 110 diversity in, 46 – 47 , 208 – 211 , 225 popular culture, 154 – 165 ethnoracial nationalism, 71 – 72 celebrity autobiographies, 182 feminist/lesbian literary criticism, 6 , 10 comics, mainstream, 224 – 225 identity exclusions and, 43n5 detective fi ction, 155 – 158 intersectionality and, 51 – 52 lesbian fi ction in mainstream, 164 – 165 lesbian-poetry, 192 – 193 , 195 – 196 , 198 lipstick lesbians, 205 racial passing, 7 pulp fi ction, 155 , 158 – 163 Radway, Janice, 154 social media, 183 Raymond, Janice Porete, Marguerite, 88 The Transsexual Empire , 210 pornography reading lesbianism and feminist sex wars, literary depictions of, 4 – 7 , 8 34 , 35 , 54 practices, 8 reclaimed for women, 207 Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafi si), 65 postmodernism, 24 , 204 , 207 , 209 . See also religion (Christian) modernism, modernity female saints and religious women postmortem. See death, fi gure of/dead lesbian (medieval), 86 – 88 , 92n26 Powers of Desire , 177 guides in Middle Ages, 81 privilege and Western lesbianism, 3 , 14n11 passionate friendship of nuns, 82 – 83 progress, continuous, 70 , 73 Reformation, 93 , 94 , 105n13 psychoanalysis, 22 – 23 , 146 – 150 , 175 reproductive futurism, 19 , 22 Puar, Jasbir, 64 , 215 Rich, Adrienne, 190 – 192 publishers and publishing awards, 190 – 191 , 201n16 of Bridge , 45 , 46 “compulsory heterosexuality,” 33 censorship, 140 , 141 , 159 , 164 “Diving into the Wreck,” 190 comics and graphic narratives, 222 , “(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered),” 223 – 224 , 226 191 – 192 , 194 , 199 independent presses, 192 , 205 – 206 lesbian continuum, 8 , 33 – 34 , 173 , lesbian pulp fi ction, 160 – 161 206 , 229 Paris, 145 National Book Award (1973), 190 – 191 pulp fi ction (lesbian), 155 , 158 – 163 , 205 . “Twenty-One Love Poems,” 191 See also popular culture Richardson, Samuel The History of Sir Charles Grandison , queer studies/theory. See also LGBT/lesbian 115 and gay studies Riley, Denise, 27 contemporary fi ction and, 204 Robbins, Trina, 222 critique of, 38 – 39 Robert of Flamborough, 81 defi nitions in, 36 , 38 Robinson, A. Mary F., 122 lesbian shame and, 32 roman à clef, 146 , 170 , 176 , 181 lesbian specifi city and, 11 Roof, Judith, 1 , 215 “lesbian” terminology, 41 – 42 Rowe, Nicholas paranoid/reparative binaries and, 198 “Song,” 100 , 101 queer(ing) theory, 25 – 26 Rubin, Gayle, 4 temporality and, 23 – 24 . See also time “Thinking Sex,” 34 – 35 , 36 queer time. See under time Ruddick, Lisa, 147 queer/queer women Rukeyeser, Muriel, 189 migrations, 71 Rule for Anchoresses , 81 terminology, 2 , 20 , 28n10 , 139 Rupp, Leila, 3 , 139 255

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Rushin, Donna Kate, 48 Shakespeare, William Russ, Joanna, 4 As You Like It , 96 , 117 Twelfth Night , 96 , 117 Sackville-West, Vita, 175 shame relationship with Virginia Woolf, 9 , 143 , 173 in feminist and queer studies, 32 sadomasochism, 34 , 54 pulp fi ction and, 159 , 161 , 162 – 163 Said, Edward Shannon, Laurie, 96 , 97 , 99 Orientalism , 62 – 63 , 65 Shaw, Adrienne, 219 Sappho of Lesbos/sapphist Shelley, Mary in early modern writing, 9 – 10 Lodore , 116 eighteenth-century versions, 110 – 114 Showalter, Elaine, 212 fi n de siècle, 131 – 132 Sidney, Philip, 214 historical context, 2 – 4 , 19 Arcadia , 117 lesbian autobiographies and, 5 , 170 Sinfi eld, Alan, 204 Lesbian poetry and, 188 Singer, Sally, 162 “lesbian” terminology, 94 , 104n11 Sinister Wisdom , 192 Sappho-an, The (pamphlet), 110 – 111 Smith, Ali Sarif, Shamim capitalism critique in novels, 212 The World Unseen , 69 – 71 lesbian presence in novels, 206 Sarton, May queer time in novels, 216 Journal of a Solitude , 174 technology critique in novels, 213 Schrag, Ariel, 225 – 226 Smith, Barbara, 6 , 8 . See also Combahee Schulman, Sarah, 207 River Collective (CRC) Statement After Delores , 212 Smith, Erin, 158 Rat Bohemia , 208 social media, 183 . See also popular culture science, 146 – 150 , 165n9 sodomy, medieval female, 81 – 82 Scott, Sarah Sontag, Susan, 175 – 176 “The History of Leonora and Soto, Sandra K., 197 Louisa,” 117 South Africa, 70 – 71 Millenium Hall , 116 Spanish America, 195 – 196 , 197 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky spectrality and the occult, 23 , 125 – 126 , “between the living and the dead,” 130 132 – 133 , 134n25 Epistomology of the Closet , 36 – 37 , 39 Spiegelman, Art, 220 , 222 September 11, 2001, 212 , 215 Sri Lanka, 71 – 72 Seward, Anna Stein, Gertrude Llangollen Vale , 112 The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias , Sex Disqualifi cation (removal) Act 169 , 172 (England), 141 lesbian-poet, 188 – 189 sex wars (feminist), 34 , 37 , 54 , 191 letters, 171 sexology, 146 – 150 The Making of Americans, 147 sexual practice. See also sex wars privilege, 142 breaking taboos, 209 Tender Buttons , 188 detachment from, 33 – 34 Stobie, Cheryl, 62 , 70 female masculinity, 40 . See also female Stokes, John, 124 masculinity Stonewall Riots/post-Stonewell era, libido, 143 155 , 213 , 215 medieval, 80 – 86 Stryker, Susan, 41 for procreation only, 79 – 80 suicide, 110 , 122 , 124 , 125 , 129 – 130 , 135n39 Victorian, 126 “survival literature,” 159 , 166n28 violent carnality in writing of, 207 Swetnam, Joseph, 94 sexuality studies, 10 – 11 , 20 , 35 . See also feminisms/feminist studies ; LGBT/lesbian Tamaki, Jillian and Mariko and gay studies ; queer studies/theory Skim , 226 256

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Tambiah, Yasmin V., 71 utopias, 115 – 116 , 154 , 200 , 211 Taylor, Valerie dystopias, 212 The Girls in 3-B , 160 , 167n44 Tea, Michelle, 182 Vanita, Ruth, 60 , 61 technology, 213 Victorian period terminology. See defi nitions and terminology death cult, 124 , 126 Terry, Jennifer, 165n9 sex between women, 126 The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle Village Voice , 180 de Richelieu , 117 Villarejo, Amy, 125 Theodore of Tarsus, 80 Vincent, Norah, 182 theory. See queer studies/theory virago, 89 This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga and Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, 183 Anzaldúa). See also Black women, Black feminism ; race ; women of color feminism Wahrman, Dror, 108 “A Black Feminist Statement,” 49 – 52 Walen, Denise, 96 infl uence and history of, 45 – 49 , 195 Walker, Alice, 190 lesbian life writing, 177 Warner, Michael, 88 overview of, 6 Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 173 time Waters, Sarah colonial temporality/Messianic time, class confl ict, 208 24 , 63 , 72 Fingersmith , 207 , 214 lesbian literature as transtemporal, 28n5 historical fi ction novels, 213 – 214 queer time, 19 – 20 , 21 – 22 , 23 , 28n5 , The Paying Guests, 215 30n24 , 215 – 216 , 226 popular genres, 164 queer touch across, 130 queer time in novels, 216 subjective temporality, 22 – 23 Tipping the Velvet , 207 , 210 , 213 Tinkers, Johnetta, 48 Weininger, Otto, 147 Tolmie, Jane, 227 Well of Loneliness . See Hall, Radclyffe “Tommy,” 110 White, Hayden, 21 Torres, Tereska White, Patricia, 125 Women’s Barracks , 159 , 161 Whitlock, Gillian, 221 tradition and modernity, 67 – 68 , 73 Wiegman, Robyn, 10 , 11 , 40 , 42n3 transgender, 13 , 41 , 181 – 182 , 210 – 211 . wife as husband’s subject, 93 – 94 , 105n13 See also gender Wilde, Oscar, 125 , 143 transsexuality, 210 – 211 William of Saliceto, 82 female-to-male, 41 . See also gender Wimmen’s Comix , 222 Traub, Valerie Wings, Mary “cycles of salience,” 25 , 80 , 90n6 , 110 Come Out Comix , 223 early modern England, 94 , 95 – 96 , 97 She Came Too Late , 156 – 157 eighteenth century, 108 Winnicott, Donald, 229 Orientalism, 63 Winning, Joanne, 146 Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Winterson, Jeanette Richelieu , 118 autobiography, 180 – 181 tribade, tribadism, 19 , 95 , 104n11 , bisexuality in novels, 209 105n16 , 110 gender fl uidity in novel, 213 Triptow, Robert, 223 historical fi ction, 213 , 214 Trotter, Catherine identity, 204 Agnes de Castro , 100 – 101 lesbian presence in novels, 205 – 206 Trumbach, Randolph, 113 materialism critique in novels, 212 Turner, William, 11 popular fi ction, 164 , 204 , 205 – 206 , 213 queer time in novels, 216 Upton, Anthony, 102 sexuality and textuality, 207 Uszkurat, Carol Ann, 160 Thatcherism, 212 257

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Wiseman, Susan, 94 Mrs. Dalloway , 144 Wittig, Monique, 27 , 59n27 , 206 Orlando , 9 , 107 , 141 , 149 Wolfe, Cary, 26 A Room of One’s Own , 7 , 140 , woman, as term, 2 142 , 149 “wife” as separate from, 93 – 94 Three Guineas , 141 , 149 “women,” as a category, 37 , 59n27 Word is Out (book, fi lm), 5 women of color feminism, 6 , 32 , 45 – 47 , writing, literary depictions of, 8 – 10 49 , 56n3 . See also Black women, Black feminism ; race ; This Bridge Called My Yarbro-Frausto, Yvonne, 195 Back (Moraga and Anzaldúa) Yuknavitch, Lidia Wonder Woman , 225 The Chronology of Water , 182 Woodward, Carolyn, 116 – 117 yuri comics (Japan), 221 Woolf, Virginia Between the Acts , 144 Zeffren, Ilana, 220 letters of, 173 Zimmerman, Bonnie, 1 , 208

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