Category: Lesbian Studies

Lindsy Van Gelder; Pamela Robin Brandt | The Girls Next Door | From Publishers Weekly

In a revealing cross-section of lesbian life in America, the authors, both journalists as well as life partners, report on

Robert E. Owens | Queer Kids | Packed to the hilt with living narratives, scholarly research, and problem-solution scenarios, Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay

Lillian Faderman | Surpassing the Love of Men | Hailed as ‘one of the most significant contributions yet made to feminist literature’ by The New York Review of Books and praised by Michel Foucault a

Kristin Esterberg | Lesbian & Bisexual Identities | This book examines the stories of lesbian and bisexual women in a Northeast community who share who they are, how they have come to see themselves as

Ramona Faith Oswald | Lesbian Rites | Explore affirmation and coping rituals for lesbian singles, couples, and communities! This pioneering book is a multidisciplinary compilation of schol

Fritz Klein | The Bisexual Option | Soon to be translated into Japanese! The Bisexual Option explores bisexuality, explains the bisexual, and explodes myths surrounding this large “unsee

Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other’s hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that

Marion Zimmer Bradley | Checklist | A definitive checklist of ‘variant’ women and homosexual fiction. Generally short reviews (sometimes merely a title and publisher) by various reviewer

Thomas Piontek | Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies | ‘Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies’ is a broadly interdisciplinary study that considers a key dilemma in gay and lesbian studies through the prism of i

Barbara Ponse | Identities In The Lesbian World | Review

“An excellent study of how the label `lesbian’ is used in our society–both by the dominant heterosexual culture and by women who relate se