Classics in Lesbian Studies takes a major step in giving the lesbian experience its own unique voice within scholarship and the larger world society. Thus, it is devoted exclusively to the lesbian experience and serves as a vehicle for the promotion of scholarship and commentary on lesbianism from an international perspective. Not only does it ensure that classic pieces are not forgotten by new generations of students and scholars, it also spurs further lesbian research, writing, theory, and scholarship.

• Introduction: What Are Classics in Lesbian Studies? (Esther D. Rothblum)
• Some Like Indians Endure (Paula Gunn Allen)
• Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism: Two Idealtypical Expressions of Female Homosexuality in Black Communities of the Diaspora (Gloria Wekker)
• Coming Out in the Age of Social Constructionism: Sexual Identity Formation Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women (Paula C. Rust)
• A Study of Lesbian Lifestyles in the Homosexual Micro-Culture and the Heterosexual Macro-Culture (Joyce C. Albro and Carol Tully)
• Sappho Was a Right-On Adolescent: Growing Up Lesbian (Margaret Schneider)
• Growing Older Female: Heterosexual and Homosexual (Mary Riege Laner)
• Lesbianism in Female and Coed Correctional Institutions (Alice M. Propper)
• Lesbian Women of Color: Triple Jeopardy (Beverly Greene)
• Who Hid Lesbian History? (Lillian Faderman)
• Imagine My Surprise: Women's Relationships in Historical Perspective (Leila J. Rupp)
• Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English (Catharine R. Stimpson)
• Lesbian Ethics and Female Agency (Sarah Lucia Hoagland)
• Toward a Laboratory of One's Own: Lesbians in Science (H. Patricia Hynes)
• National Lesbian Health Care Survey: Implications for Mental Health Care (Judith Bradford, Caitlin Ryan, and Esther D. Rothblum)
• Negative Sexual Experiences With Men Among Heterosexual Women and Lesbians (JoAnn C. Brannock and Beata E. Chapman)
• Therapy for Lesbians?: The Case Against (Rachel Perkins)
• Putting the Politics Back Into Lesbianism (Janice G. Raymond)