The Mirror Dance

Identity in a Women's Community

Plot

Part I. The setting. An identity community ; Expectations of intimacy: an individual view ; The web of talk ; A sense of history --
Part II. Parties and gatherings. Couples ; A subgroup ; Coming and going ; Mothers and children --
Part III. Bar women and political women. The outside world, I: work ; The outside world, II: families, friends, and straight society ; Privacy ; Postscript --
Appendix: Fiction and social science.