Queering the Underworld by Scott Herring
Scott Herring | Queering the Underworld | At the start of the twentieth century, tales of “how the other half lives” experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without le
Literary Criticism
Willa Cather by Marilee Lindemann
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
Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes by David William Foster
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
Making Girls into Women by Kathryn R. Kent
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
Queer Fictions of the Past by Scott Bravmann
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
Critical Essays by Emmanuel Sampath Nelson
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
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
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
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
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