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
Catriona Rueda Esquibel | With Her Machete in Her Hand | With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria An
Kathleen Martindale | Un/Popular Culture | Theorizing lesbian, Kathleen Martindale writes, is like embarking on terra incognita. In this book, Martindale offers her lucidly written analysis as
Ruth Vanita | Sappho and the Virgin Mary | In this book, Vanita engages these two central icons of Western cultural mythology to rethink the concept of literary ancestry. Uncovering layers of l