Margaret Reynolds | The Sappho History | The Sappho History traces the story of the reception of Sappho’s poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the Romantic period to the presen
Patricia Juliana Smith | Lesbian Panic | For Smith, ‘lesbian panic’ is often a fear of losing one’s identity and value within the heterosexual paradigm. This book traces the history of ‘lesbi
Jane Rule | Lesbian Images | The author’s attitude toward lesbian experience as measured against images by other women writers, such as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and May Sarto
Jane McIntosh Snyder | Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho | This is the first book to examine Sappho’s poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. Snyder provides close readings of the surviving examples of Sapp
Page DuBois | Sappho is Burning | To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as spe
Elizabeth Meese | (Sem)Erotics – Theorizing Lesbian: Writing | What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? What motivates these writers and characterizes their work? What is the na
Anna Livia | Pronoun Envy | Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic ‘he,’ has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the la
Catriona Rueda Esquibel | With Her Machete In Her Hand | I am wildly ecstatic about this project and thoroughly grateful for Esquibel’s interventions in the cause of Chicana lesbian authors …now extending
Janet Halley; Andrew Parker | After Sex? | Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social s
Terry Castle | Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall | At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine two more different literary personalities than Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall. Coward’s writing is play
