Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire (ed. Indiana University Press, 1994) - ISBN: 9780253316813