This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insight, a critique of queer theory and an empirical interrogation of the embodied, spatial and material intersection of class and sexuality.

Yvette Taylor is Professor in Social and Policy Studies and Head of the Weeks Centre, London South Bank University, UK. Her publications include Working-Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders, Lesbian and Gay Parenting, Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities, Classed Intersections; T heorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality and Sexualities: Reflections and Futures.