Category: History

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments | Saidiya Hartman | At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their

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A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr

A Short History of Queer Women | Kirsty Loehr | Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books

No, they weren’t ‘just friends’!Queer women have been written out

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Black. Queer. Southern. Women. by E. Patrick Johnson

Black. Queer. Southern. Women. | E. Patrick Johnson | Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,

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Desiring Emancipation by Marti M. Lybeck

Desiring Emancipation | Marti M. Lybeck | Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar perio

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Desiring Emancipation by Marti M. Lybeck

Desiring Emancipation | Marti M. Lybeck | Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women’s claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of h

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Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 by Donoghue Emma

Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 | Donoghue Emma | Where previous historians have concluded that a combination of censorship and ignorance excluded lesbian experience from written history before our er

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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Kennedy

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Elizabeth Kennedy | ‘Soars on the plain yet eloquent voices of the women…A necessary and overdue addition to the archives of lesbian and gay history.’The Boston Globe.

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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown

Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy | Judith C. Brown | The story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, and Sister Bartolomea Crivelli represents the earliest documented l

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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men–Between Women) by Professor Lillian Faderman

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men–Between Women) | Professor Lillian Faderman | Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today’s diverse lifestyles. Using journals, u

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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers | Lillian Faderman | As Lillian Faderman writes, there are ‘no constants with regard to lesbianism,’ except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she re