Editor’s introduction to special section “On being ‘lesbian’ in the contemporary U.S.”

About the Author Ronnie C Lesser is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Lyme, NH and Norwich, VT. She is Co-editor with Thomas Domenici of Disorienting Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Reappraisals of Sexual Identities (Routledge, 1995), and with Erica Schoenberg: That Obscure Subject of Desire: Freud’s Female Homosexual Reconsidered (Routledge, 1996). She is on the editorial board of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.