Teresa de Lauretis is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema and Technologies of Gender and the editor of Feminist Studies/Critical Studies and of Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities (a special issue of the journal differences).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LESBIAN SEXUALITY

1. Freud, Sexuality, and Perversion

2. Female Homosexuality Revisited

PART TWO: ORIGINAL FANTASIES, SCENARIOS OF DESIRE

3. Recasting the Primal Scene: Film and Lesbian Representation

4. The Seductions of Lesbianism: Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory and the Maternal Imaginary

5. The Lure of the Mannish Lesbian: The Fantasy of Castration and the Signification of Desire

PART THREE: TOWARD A THEORY OF LESBIAN SEXUALITY

6. Perverse Desire

7. Sexual Structuring and Habit Changes

Works Cited

Films Cited

General Index

Index of Films Citied