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
