A celebration of butch-femme identities in the lesbian community.

An academic affair : the politics of butch-femme pleasures / Joan Parkin & Amanda Prosser.

Define 'community' : this is a test / Myrna Elana.

All dressed up, but no place to go? Style wars and the new lesbianism / Arlene Stein.

The femme poem I love butches Gender fuck gender / Pat Califia.

Sex, lies, and penetration : a butch finally 'fesses up / Jan Brown.Jacky and the femme Stone butch / Lee Lynch.Walt Whitman : a model femme / Christine Cassidy.Reclaiming femme-again / Mary Frances Platt.Who says we don't talk about sex? / Kitty Tsui.I, in the bow of the ferry / Kate Berne Miller.The butch-femme balance / Renay Sanders.Dress shirt Roll me over and make me a rose / Scarlet Woman.When she wears a tie for me Dear Billie / Christine Cassidy.Re-collecting history, renaming lives : femme stigma and the feminist seventies and eighties / Lyndall MacCowan.A letter from the Philippines / Marivic R.Butches, lies, and feminism / Jeanne Cordova.Roles? I don't know anyone who's 'playing' : a letter to my femme sisters Epilogue, nine years later / Madeline Davis.The femme tapes / Madeline Davis, Amber Hollibaugh, & Joan Nestle.What we're rollin' around in bed with : sexual silences in feminism : a conversation toward ending them / Amber Hollibaugh & Cherríe Moraga.Butch on the streets, 1981 / Donna Allegra.

Excerpts from In the shadows of love / Chea Villanueva.

The butch-femme question / Rita Laporte.

Excerpts from a crystal diary / Frankie Hucklenbroich.

Cira and Yolanda : an interview / Ina Rimpau & Carolyn Gammon.

How the butch does it : 1959 / Merril Mushroom.

From the diary of Marge McDonald (1931-1986).

An old dyke's tale : an interview with Doris Lunden / Elly Bulkin.

Letter to a fifties femme from a stone butch / Leslie Feinberg.

Butch to butch : a love song / Leslie Feinberg.

'They was no one to mess with' : the construction of the butch role in the lesbian community of the 1940s and 1950s / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline Davis.

The butch as drag artiste : Greenwich Village in the roaring forties / Lisa E.

Miss Ogilvy finds herself / Radclyffe Hall.

The persistent- To the Evening post / William Cullen Bryant

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