Drawing on a wide range of diverse source material this groundbreaking critical anthology discusses the lives of lesbians from the late eighteenth century to the 1970s.

Introduction; Part I Archetypes of Love between Women; Chapter 1 Cross-Dressing Women; Chapter 2 Romantic Friends and Lesbian Couples; Part II Professional Commentaries; Chapter 3 Medicine; Chapter 4 Education; Chapter 5 Law; Part III Making Lesbianism in Culture; Chapter 6 The Well of Loneliness; Chapter 7 Social Perceptions; Chapter 8 Identities and Networks;

Alison Oram is Reader in Women's Studies at University College Northampton.,
Annmarie Turnbull works for a national charity.