Tamsin Wilton is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

• Introduction: lesbian what? 1 Deviant pedagogies: the nature of lesbian studies 2 The nature of the beast: what is a lesbian? 3 Invisible and erased: uses and abuses of history 4 What is this thing called? Models of sexual identity 5 Orthodoxy within disobedience: lesbians and feminists 6 Stories and storytellers: lesbian literary studies 7 Lesbians studying culture: studying lesbian culture 8 The social lesbian 9 Subject to control: lesbians and the state

Tamsin Wilton is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

• Introduction: lesbian what? 1 Deviant pedagogies: the nature of lesbian studies 2 The nature of the beast: what is a lesbian? 3 Invisible and erased: uses and abuses of history 4 What is this thing called? Models of sexual identity 5 Orthodoxy within disobedience: lesbians and feminists 6 Stories and storytellers: lesbian literary studies 7 Lesbians studying culture: studying lesbian culture 8 The social lesbian 9 Subject to control: lesbians and the state

Tamsin Wilton is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

• Introduction: lesbian what? 1 Deviant pedagogies: the nature of lesbian studies 2 The nature of the beast: what is a lesbian? 3 Invisible and erased: uses and abuses of history 4 What is this thing called? Models of sexual identity 5 Orthodoxy within disobedience: lesbians and feminists 6 Stories and storytellers: lesbian literary studies 7 Lesbians studying culture: studying lesbian culture 8 The social lesbian 9 Subject to control: lesbians and the state