Table of Contents: “…Political fictions: The lesbian writer and her texts -- The novel of self-discovery -- Lesbian continuum -- Lesbian community -- 4. …”

Table of Contents: “…When is a lesbian narrative a lesbian narrative? -- Narrative: the elastic project -- The lesbian subject: a war of images -- The romantic lesbian narrative: Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-one love poems" and Marilyn Hacker's Love, death, and the changing of the seasons -- The heroic lesbian narrative: Marion Zimmer Bradley's The mists of Avalon and Gloria Naylor's The women of Brewster Place -- The postmodern lesbian text: Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the cherry and Written on the body.…”