The Queer Uncanny by Paulina Palmer
Paulina Palmer | The Queer Uncanny | The Queer Uncanny investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in representing lesbia
Literary Criticism
Contemporary Lesbian Writing by Paulina Palmer
Paulina Palmer | Contemporary Lesbian Writing | Includes sections titled Theoretical Perspectives, Political Fictions, The Thriller and more. Now retired, Paulina Palmer was a senior lecturer in the
Sapphism on Screen by Lucille Cairns
Lucille Cairns | Sapphism on Screen | Looking for something intellectual that will challenge your focus and intelligence? Sapphism on Screen is a study of lesbian desire in French and Fran
Passionate Communities by Marilyn R. Schuster
Marilyn R. Schuster | Passionate Communities | In this new full-length study of Jane Rule’s life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule’s novels provide a way of ‘writing and reading lesbian’
Lesbiana by Barbara Grier
Barbara Grier | Lesbiana | Includes all of Barbara Grier’s book reviews that appeared in the ‘Lesbiana’ section of the Ladder
New Lesbian Criticism by Sally Munt
Sally Munt | New Lesbian Criticism | This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against reading as a ‘woman’ or as a ‘heterosexual’. Contributors b
Sisters, Sexperts, Queers by Arlene Stein
Arlene Stein | Sisters, Sexperts, Queers | This collection of essays illustrates both the vitality and the variety within the lesbian community, with topics such as the politics of butch-femme
The Sappho History by Margaret Reynolds
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
Lesbian Panic by Patricia Juliana Smith
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
Lesbian Images by Jane Rule
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