Róisín Ryan-Flood is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship at the University of Essex, UK. Her books include Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (2009) and Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World (Routledge, 2018). She is co-editor of the journal Sexualities.

Alison Rooke is a writer and researcher. After a long association with Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where she was Senior Lecturer, she became the Director of the social research company Art of Regeneration.

1. Que(e)rying Methodology: Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives: An Introduction 2. The Re-Making of Sexual Kinds: Queer Subjects and the Limits of Representation 3. The Lady Vanishes: On Never Knowing, Quite, Who Is a Lesbian 4. Queer in the Field: On Emotions, Temporality, and Performativity in Ethnography 5. Researching Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Relationships-A Feminist Epistemological Approach to Survey Development 6. Producing Cosmopolitan Sexual Citizens on The L Word 7. Complexities and Complications: Intersections of Class and Sexuality 8. Researching "Race" in Lesbian Space: A Critical Reflection 9. Queering Representation: Ethics and Visibility in Research