Category: Literary Criticism

Posted in Black Interest Literary Criticism

After Mecca by Cheryl Clarke

Cheryl Clarke | After Mecca | This is the only book-length treatment of Black women poets of the Black Arts Movement, their contributions to the development of feminism and lesbian

Posted in Award Winner Literary Criticism

The Safe Sea Of Women by Bonnie Zimmerman

Bonnie Zimmerman | The Safe Sea Of Women | Provides an overview of lesbian fiction, and analyzes the ways in which it has both mirrored and shaped the lesbian movement and lesbian culture

Posted in Literary Criticism

My Mama’s Dead Squirrel by Mab Segrest

Mab Segrest | My Mama’s Dead Squirrel | This collection brings together essays published over the past eight years by lesbian-feminist organizer and editor Segrest, who is the granddaughter

Posted in Literary Criticism

Out Loud by Ed Madden; Candace Chellew-Hodge

Ed Madden; Candace Chellew-Hodge | Out Loud | From a small radio studio in the heart of the Deep South, the voices of gay and lesbian Southerners suddenly filled the AM airwaves. “For far too long

Posted in Literary Criticism

Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives by Marilyn R. Farwell

Marilyn R. Farwell | Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives | What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly)

Posted in Asian Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism

(Un)Familiar Femininities – Studies In Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Rajendran Aneeta

Rajendran Aneeta | (Un)Familiar Femininities – Studies In Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts | The female homosexual in South Asia is not always a visible lesbian person. She is often a figuration of an act that challenges hegemonic ideas of gen

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

Lesbian Romance Novels by Phyllis M. Betz

Phyllis M. Betz | Lesbian Romance Novels | This critical analysis of the popular romance novel genre offers an evaluation of the field through the subgenre of the lesbian romance novel. A histo

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Literary Criticism

What Lesbians do in Books by Elaine Hobby; Chris White

Elaine Hobby; Chris White | What Lesbians do in Books | This is the first British anthology of critical writing about lesbians as writers, readers, and as characters in literature. A comprehensive and inval

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

The Search for a Woman-Centered Spirituality by Annette Van Dyke

Annette Van Dyke | The Search for a Woman-Centered Spirituality | ‘[A] bridge-building book [that] illuminates the interconnections among feminist creators from multi-cultural mainstream traditions; one that creates

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Literary Criticism

Lesbian Lives by Nicky Hallett

Nicky Hallett | Lesbian Lives | How does the ‘factual’ shape our sense of sexuality and self? How far have representations of lesbianism actually moved from the pathology and devianc