Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Case histories -- The train of thought in Freud's 'Case of Homosexuality in a Woman' -- The critical cult of Dora -- A case of AIDS -- Portraits -- Marilyn Monroe by Gloria Steinem, Brigitte Bardot by Simone de Beauvoir -- 'Transforming the Suit': a century of lesbian self-portraits -- Portrait of a marriage? -- Heroines -- The Amazons of ancient Athens -- Lianna and the lesbians of art cinema -- From robot to romance -- Sexual politics -- The fatal attraction of Intercourse -- More of a Man: gay porn cruises gay politics -- The feminist ethics of lesbian s/m -- Notes -- Index