Marilee Lindemann | Willa Cather | Although it has been proven posthumously by scholars that Willa Cather had lesbian relationships, she did not openly celebrate lesbian desire, and eve
David William Foster | Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes | Spanish literature is one of the major European literatures, with an extensive array of canonical and important writers from the Middle Ages to the pr
Kathryn R. Kent | Making Girls into Women | Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of ‘the lesbian’ by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wome
Scott Bravmann | Queer Fictions of the Past | This is the first book to look at how lesbians and gays use history to define themselves as social, cultural, and political subjects. Bravmann shows h
Emmanuel Sampath Nelson | Critical Essays | Challenges the marginalization of gay men and lesbians of color in the dominant academic discourses by focusing scholarly attention on the imaginative
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
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
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
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
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)