Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction: Backstories 1
7. 1. The Poetics of Lesbian Identification 27
8. 2. Tribades for Sale: Popular Fiction and Backroom Books 65
9. 3. Dystopian Sapphism: Anti-Feminism, Class Warfare, and the Elite Novel at the Fin de Siècle 105
10. 4. Scientia Sapphica 151
11. 5. Intertexts and Afterlives: From the French Canon to U.S. Lesbian Pulps 187
12. Notes 231
13. Bibliography 261
14. Index 285