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
Literary Criticism
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
Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder
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
Sappho is Burning by Page DuBois
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
(Sem)Erotics – Theorizing Lesbian: Writing by Elizabeth Meese
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
Pronoun Envy by Anna Livia
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
With Her Machete In Her Hand by Catriona Rueda Esquibel
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
After Sex? by Janet Halley; Andrew Parker
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