Butch/femme Book

	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	The Marriage of Heaven y Hielo: A Love Narrative of Sorts	12
	Sailor	15
	On Meeting Ruthann	17
	1970s Lesbian Feminism Meets 1990s Butch-Femme	27
	Making Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970s	37
	Loaves and Fishes	47
	Hotel Room	50
	Alice-Hunting	53
	Between Butches	57
	Sheila Dances with Sheila	67
	Femme to Femme: A Love Story	74
	How Do We Look? Imaging Butch/Femme	82
	Waiting for No Man: Bisexual Femme Subjectivity and Cultural Repudiation	90
	Femme Erotic Independence	101
	Girl Talk: Femmes in Discussion	109
	Embodying Desire: Piercing and the Fashioning of 'Neo-butch/femme' Identities	123
	Losing Sue	133
	A Tale of Two Annies	147
	King of the Hill: Changing the Face of Drag - An Interview with Dred	151
	Stone Butch	156
	Untouchability and Vulnerability: Stone Butchness as Emotional Style	159
	'Real' Compared to What? Butch and Femme Contradictions in Greek Culture	170
	The Hegemonic Regulation of Butch Performance: Regina v. Saunders	177
	Public Discourse and the Closeting of Butch Lesbians	191
	Orifices in Space: Making the Real Possible	200
	The Conversation	210
	Living under the Sign of the Cross: Some Speculations on Femme Femininity	214
	Afterword	225
	Notes	231