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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
