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
Jodie Medd | Lesbian Scandal And The Culture Of Modernism | ‘Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-
Christine E. Coffman | Insane Passions | In France in 1933, two sisters, presumed to be lovers, murdered the women who employed them as maids. Known as ‘the Papin affair,’ the incident inspir
Lisa L. Moore | Dangerous Intimacies | Refuting commonly held beliefs within womenrs’s and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel,Dangerous Intimacieschallenges the id
Julie Abraham | Are Girls Necessary? | What do we read as ‘lesbian,’ and why? Have we been looking for love in too few places? In this first full-length study of modern lesbian writing, Jul
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)
Elaine Hutton | Beyond Sex And Romance? | For almost three decades, a wide range of lesbian fiction has been published regularly and in quantity. So what effect has this writing had on the soc
Margaret Goldsmith | Sappho of Lesbos | A psychological biography of Sappho of Lesbos written by a layman for laymen, and not a dissertation written for classical scholars, this work concent
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
Jane McIntosh Snyder | Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho | A comprehensive treatment of Sappho’s poetry for the Greekless reader.