Lesbian pulp fiction books usually showed suggestive art with obscure titles that hinted at what the subject matter was inside.

However, it was in this book that Bannon wrote one of the first endings in a work of lesbian fiction where none of the characters commit suicide, goes insane, is killed, or is left completely alone.

[3] One year after leaving college, Laura Landon is exhausted by living with her harsh, judgmental father, who perceives that she failed out of school.

She gets a job as a secretary in a medical office and lands an apartment in Greenwich Village with a roommate named Marcie.

As a joke, he explains, Jack takes them to a gay bar in Greenwich Village and watches their reactions.

Jack returns the intrigue when he hears Laura argue with Burr's statement that he could make any of the women in the bar straight if he wanted to.

After going out a couple times, Jack introduces Laura to a mutual friend, Beebo Brinker (born as Betty Jean), a tall, swaggering, dark-haired butch.

From a desperate longing and loneliness, Laura sobers up enough to seduce Beebo and they begin a torrid affair.

After wandering the night in the rain, Laura shows up at Jack's house fearing she killed her father.

"[5] A 1969 retrospective of lesbian paperback fiction called I Am A Woman a "blockbuster" that heaps praise on the character of Beebo Brinker, "who carries off a barroom seduction scene that is surely a classic".

In this review she stated that I Am A Woman, along with Bannon's other novels, "proved that while love between women was difficult, it was a possibility."