Category: Literary History

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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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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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The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub

Valerie Traub | The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England | Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire, and eroticism in a range of early modern discourses, including poetry, drama,

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Dangerous Intimacies by Lisa L. Moore

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

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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 | A wide range of writers and scholars brings the importance of gay literature to the masses.

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We Are Michael Field by Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue | We Are Michael Field | The first biography since the 1920s of the Victorian collaborative writers and lovers (as well as aunt and niece), Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper,

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Damned Women by Jennifer Waelti-Walters

Jennifer Waelti-Walters | Damned Women | A literary study of lesbians in french novels, 1796-1996

Damned Women charts the previously unexplored literary territory of the place of le

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Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder

Jane McIntosh Snyder | Sappho | Introduces Sappho’s life, the changing views people have had about her, and the condition of women in ancient Greece, discusses her poetry, and descri

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The Cambridge Companion To Gay And Lesbian Writing by Hugh Stevens

Hugh Stevens | The Cambridge Companion To Gay And Lesbian Writing | In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and sc

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Who’s Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing by Gabriele Griffin

Gabriele Griffin | Who’s Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing | This book is a lively and accessible biographical guide to lesbian and gay literary culture from Sappho to modern pulp fiction. It includes fascinatin