Table of contents for A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women by Suzanne Juhasz

Acknowledgments

"Memoirs of Mommy"

Love and Language

Daughter Writing and the Search for Recognition

Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, and Susannah Moore's My Old Sweetheart

A Wedge-Shaped Core of Darkness: Representing the Mother

Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse

Mother Writing and the Narrative of Maternal Subjectivity

Mary Gordon's Men and Angels and Toni Morrison's Beloved

The Shapes of Maternal Desire

Liza Nelson's Playing Botticelli

Riding the Flying Mare and Being Her: Complementary Identification and Lesbian Desire

Poetry by Merle Woo, Thérèse Murdza, Judy Grahn, Marilyn Hacker, Amy Edgington, Pat Parker, Lori Faulkner, and Janice Gould

A Drive from the Mother's Blood: Lesbian Relationship

Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Readerly Desire and the Transference Relationship

Joan Gould's Spirals: A Woman's Journey through Family Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index