Page DuBois | Sappho Is Burning | To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as spe
Bell Hooks | Remembered Rapture | With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learne
Eileen Barrett; Patricia Cramer | Virginia Woolf | Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer have put together an excellent collection of original articles which demonstrates the range of lesbian literary sch
Joseph Bristow | Sexual Sameness | Lesbian and gay theory is now one of the most provocative and lively areas of inquiry into questions of sex, gender and sexuality. ‘Sexual Sameness’ l
Marion Zimmer Bradley | Checklist | A definitive checklist of ‘variant’ women and homosexual fiction. Generally short reviews (sometimes merely a title and publisher) by various reviewer
Patricia Juliana Smith | Lesbian Panic | For Smith, ‘lesbian panic’ is often a fear of losing one’s identity and value within the heterosexual paradigm. This book traces the history of ‘lesbi
Michelle Ann Abate | Tomboys | Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the “girl power” movement of the 1990’s, Tomboys is the
Paul Julian Smith | Laws Of Desire | Homosexuality has been treated only in a fragmentary way in Hispanic studies, and this is the first full-length study of the subject in contemporary S
Emma Liggins | Odd Women? | This genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women fiction and auto biography from the 1850s
