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This paper contrasts my experience of coming out as a white, Jewish, highly educated, urban, middle class 'lesbian' in the 20th century with the experience of two 'lesbian' patients coming out today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to demonstrate the inextricability of the sociopolitical from the clinical practice of working with patients, by presenting a brief vignette of a session that took place immediately after I listened to a news broadcast. Because I view psychoanalytic theory and practice as inseparable from sociopolitical reality, I propose that psychoanalysis is an approach to living that is grounded in culture and values. I argue that by espousing a view of psychoanalysis as truth, we inadvertently contribute to naturalizing neoliberalism. I also attempt to broaden our view of neoliberal subjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduction to a special section 'On Being Lesbian in the Contemporary U.S.' consists of four papers which consider different aspects of lesbian experience from a socio-historical perspective, and one which explores attitudes towards lesbians by white evangelical Protestants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]