Category: Literary History

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Crossing Borders by Sahar Amer

Sahar Amer | Crossing Borders | Crossing Borders argues that the interpretation of lesbian relationships in medieval French literature can be enriched by reading these texts together

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Crossing Through Chueca by Jill Robbins

Jill Robbins | Crossing Through Chueca | In the past two decades the city of Madrid has been marked by pride, feminism, and globalization–but also by the vestiges of the machismo nurtured du

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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

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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

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Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read by Richard Canning

Richard Canning | Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read | A wide range of writers and scholars brings the importance of gay literature to the masses.

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50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read by Richard Canning

Richard Canning | 50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read | Gay topics have been central to most national literary traditions, whether in fiction, memoir, drama, or verse. Yet “crossover” success stories are re

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Daring To Find Our Names by James V. Carmichael

James V. Carmichael | Daring To Find Our Names | Outlines theoretical and methodological problems in documenting lesbigay history generally (and specifically, the history of lesbigay professionals, p

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Curiouser by Steven Bruhm; Natasha Hurley

Steven Bruhm; Natasha Hurley | Curiouser | Our culture has a dominant narrative about children: they are (and should stay) innocent of sexual desires and intentions. At the same time, children

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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

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Lesbian Pulp Fiction by Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest | Lesbian Pulp Fiction |

Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbia