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’
Barbara Grier | Lesbiana | Includes all of Barbara Grier’s book reviews that appeared in the ‘Lesbiana’ section of the Ladder
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
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
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