Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.
Contents
Sapphic primitivism, an introduction -- The homosexual primitivism of modernism -- Olive Schreiner and the late Victorian new woman -- Empire, social rot, and sexual fantasy in the waves -- Class, race and lesbian erotics in Summer will show -- Jezebel and Sapphira : Willa Cather's monstrous sapphists.