James Creech
This work stands as a forceful example of the importance of doing cultural analysis from the perspective of the lesbian subject and, by extension, for the paradoxical centrality of many other 'marginal' perspectives. Ladenson accomplishes her huge task comprehensively and persuasively. Her book represents a breakthrough for gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and Proust studies.
Jane Gallop
Elisabeth Ladenson has written the sort of book we all dream of writing—a book that figures something out no one has understood before but in a manner so utterly persuasive that afterward its point seems to go without saying. After reading Proust's Lesbianism, the reader says, 'but of course,' to what in all the decades of reading Proust no one had been able to see. On top of its completely convincing argument, the book is so gracefully written, so elegant and clear that it makes what Ladenson has achieved seem simple, deceptively simple. Ladenson has managed to produce a book of scholarship that is a pleasure to read, a major contribution to knowledge, and a complete tour de force. I'm green with envy.