Women-identified women / edited by Trudy Darty and Sandee Potter ; with a foreword by Judith Schwarz.

Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. xv-xix.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-316).

Section One: Identity -- Changing theories of lesbianism: challenging the stereotypes / Christine Browning -- Developing a lesbian identity / Jeannine Gramick -- The coming-out process: violence against lesbians / Ruth Baetz -- Lesbian relationships: a struggle toward partner equality / Barbara Sang -- The older lesbian: love relationships and friendship patterns / Sharon Raphael and Mina Robinson -- Beloved women: the lesbian in American Indian culture / Paula Gunn Allen -- Reclamation: a lesbian Indian story / Beth Brant -- The Puerto Rican lesbian in the United States / Hilda Hidalgo -- Section Two: Oppression -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrenne Rich -- Lesbians and the law: where sexism and heterosexism meet / Meredith Gould -- Lesbianism and motherhood: implications for child custody / Ellen Lewin -- Lesbian childbirth and woman-controlled conception / Deborah Goleman Wolf -- Lesbians and contemporary health care systems: oppression and opportunity / Trudy Darty and Sandee Potter -- Peril and promise: lesbians' workplace participation / Beth Schneider -- Section Three: Culture and Community -- From accommodation to rebellion: the politicization of lesbianism / Rose Weitz -- Culture-making: lesbian classics in the year 2000 / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz -- The black lesbian in American literature: an overview / Ann Allen Shockley -- Without approval: the lesbian poetry tradition / Betty Steinshouer -- Lesbians and women's music / Maida Tilchen.