Table of Contents

Introduction: Lesbian Sex Scandals

by Dawn Atkins

To(o) Queer or Not? Queer Theory, Lesbian Community, and the Functions of Sexual Identities

by Dana R. Shugar

What Do You Call a Lesbian Who's Only Slept with Men? Answer: Ellen Morgan. Deconstructing the Lesbian Identities of Ellen Morgan and Ellen DeGeneres

by Karen Yescavage and Jonathan Alexander

To Love Women, or To Not Love Men: Chronicles of Lesbian Identification

by Hinda Seif

'Without Contraries Is No Progression': S/M, Bi-nary Thinking, and the Lesbian Purity Test

by Atara Stein

Gender Role Reversal and the Violated Lesbian Body: Toward a Feminist Hermeneutic of Lesbian Sadomasochism

by Teresa J. Hornsby

The Materiality of Gender: Looking for Lesbian Bodies in Transgender History

by Nan Alamilla Boyd

Toward a Dyke Discourse: The Essentially Constructed Stonebutch Identity

by Robin Maltz

Eroticizing Safe Sex: Pedagogy and Performance in Lesbian Video

by Christie Milliken

Women on the Edge of a Dyke-otomy: Confronting Subjectivity

by Myra J. Hird and Jenz Germon

Sticks and Stones

by Sally Abrahams

Lesbian Sexual Renegades?

by Julie Inness

Sex Radical Communities and the Future of Sexual Ethics

by Kathy Rudy