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       BISEXUALITY AND THE CHALLENGE TO LESBIAN POLITICS

      THE CUTTING EDGE:

      Lesbian Life and Literature

      THE CUTTING EDGE:

      Lesbian Life and Literature • Series Editor: Karla Jay

      The Cook and the Carpenter: A Novel by the Carpenter By June Arnold With an Introduction by Bonnie Zimmerman

      Ladies Almanack By Djuna Barnes With an Introduction by Susan Sniader Lanser

      Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney Translated by John Spalding Gatton With an Introduction by Karla Jay

      Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho By Diana Burgin

      Paint It Today by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Edited and with an Introduction by Cassandra Laity

      The Angel and the Perverts By Lucie Delarue-Mardrus Translated and with an Introduction by Anna Livia

      Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives By Marilyn R. Farwell

      Diana: A Strange Autobiography By Diana Frederics With an Introduction by Julie L. Abraham

      Lover By Bertha Harris

      Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing By renée c. hoogland

      Lesbian Erotics Edited by Karla Jay

      Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology By Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins

      (Sem)Erotics: Theorizing Lesbian : Writing By Elizabeth A. Meese

      Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution By Paula C. Rust

      The Search for a Woman-Centered Spirituality By Annette J. Van Dyke

      I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791–1840 Edited by Helena Whitbread

      No Priest but Love: The Journals of Anne Lister, 1824–26 Edited by Helena Whitbread

      THE CUTTING EDGE:

      Lesbian Life and Literature • Series Editor: Karla Jay Professor of English and Women’s Studies PACE UNIVERSITY

      EDITORIAL BOARD

      Judith Butler, Rhetoric

      UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,

      BERKELEY

      Blanche Wiesen Cook

      History and Women’s Studies

      JOHN JAY COLLEGE AND

      CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

      GRADUATE CENTER

      Diane Griffin Crowder

      French and Women’s Studies

      CORNELL COLLEGE

      Joanne Glasgow

      English and Women’s Studies

      BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

      Marny Hall

      Psychotherapist and Writer

      Celia Kitzinger, Social Studies

      LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, UK

      Jane Marcus

      English and Women’s Studies

      CITY COLLEGE AND

      CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

      GRADUATE CENTER

      Biddy Martin, German Studies

      and Women’s Studies

      CORNELL UNIVERSITY

      Elizabeth Meese, English

      UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

      Esther Newton, Anthropology

      SUNY, PURCHASE

      Terri de la Peña

      Novelist/Short Story Writer

      Ruthann Robson, Writer

      LAW SCHOOL, QUEENS COLLEGE

      CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

      Ann Allen Shockley, Librarian

      FISK UNIVERSITY

      Elizabeth Wood

      Musicologist and Writer

      Committee on Theory and Culture

      NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

      Bonnie Zimmerman

      Women’s Studies

      SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY

       BISEXUALITY AND THE CHALLENGE TO LESBIAN POLITICS

      Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution

       Paula C. Rust