What the analysis shows is that the two conditions of woman-identified relationships are not mutually exclusive, as it might be inferred from their definition and critical juxtaposition so far, but may actually be modalities of the same situation, depending on the variable of actual unmediated affection between two women. The article examines two works by Canadian (web)comics artist Emily Carroll, “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold” (2014) and “Anu-Anulan and Yir’s Daughter” (2011) in relation to a pair of second-wave feminism concepts, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s “infection in the sentence” (from the 1979 The Madwoman in the Attic) and Adrienne Rich’s “lesbian continuum” (from her 1980 “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”).
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