Rebecca O’Rourke | Reflecting on the Well of Loneliness | A feminist reading of Radcliffe Hall’s international bestseller and her both inspiring and infuriating heroine Stephen Gordon. She includes a fascinat
Katherine A. Briccetti | Blood Strangers | A powerful and nuanced tale about the search for family
Blood Strangers is a captivating, multigenerational story of an alternative family. I
Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | Unlike Jane Austen or Dickens or George Eliot, most of the great novelists of the twentieth century have felt an immense pressure toward the autobiogr
Ariel Gore | The End of Eve | “I remembered what my friend China wrote in her punk parenting zine when we were young moms. I want to be the female Bukowski, the female Burroughs,
Jan Clausen | Apples and Oranges | After more than a decade of ‘marriage’ to a woman with whom she was raising a daughter, Jan Clausen fell in love with a man, stunning herself and the
Lynda Hall | Telling Moments | Telling Moments collects contemporary short stories by a diverse group of twenty-four lesbian writers. Engaging themes of life and death, agin
Candace Gingrich | The Accidental Activist | When the Republican landslide of 1994 propelled her brother, Newt Gingrich, to the top of national politics, Candace Gingrich knew her life would neve
Kady; Kady Van Deurs | Panhandling Papers | Spanning the ’70s and ’80s, these writings by the author of The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me recall the Women’s Pentagon Actions and the Peace Camp at
Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread | The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister | These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold
Michelle Cliff | If I Could Write This in Fire | Born in a Jamaica still under British rule, the acclaimed and influential writer Michelle Cliff embraced her many identities, shaped by her experience