title: Femme/Butch family romances.
abstract: SUMMARY My essay theorizes femme/butch family romances against the grain of dominant feminist and lesbian thought that desexualizes the space of mother/daughter desire. I do so through a reading/recoding of the infringing incestuous mommie-boy desires that surface in an archetypal lesbian novel, Jane Rule's Desert of the Heart.
authors.forename: Laura A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Harris
keywords: Femme/butch; cliché; compulsory heterosexuality; ellipsis; feminist theory; gender; lesbian theory; literature; mother-daughter; perverse; queer dyke desire; sexuality