This volume contributes to the debates on lesbian lives and histories. The book includes a mixture of engaging essays from established and young scholars and opens with a succinct, incisive and often comical take on lesbian lives, relationships and cats. Essays include the personal reflections on writing historical fiction by the celebrated author Emma Donoghue and an exclusive conversational record from Joan Nestle on her life, loves and activism. The scope of this collection is international: a collaborative work of scholars from many different disciplines, universities and countries. The central theme of the book continues from the first volume 'Tribades, Tommies and Transgressives: Histories of Sexualities', in its questioning of established histories of sexualities, methodologies and theoretical practices.