A candid essay collection by bisexual sexologist Carol Queen exploring sex-positive culture, sexual identity, sex work, and erotic experiences, combining memoir with cultural analysis and advocacy.
A 1956 psychoanalytic text arguing that homosexuality is a curable neurotic disease caused by pre-Oedipal conflicts, representing the dominant psychiatric establishment’s pathologizing view of lesbian and gay identities in the 1950s.
The first biography of thriller writer Patricia Highsmith draws on her private diaries, notebooks, and letters to reveal her secret life as a lesbian, her many relationships with women, and the connections between her sexuality and her groundbreaking psychological suspense novels.
Our Bodies, Ourselves Boston Women’s Health Book Collective; Judy Norsigian Hailed by The New York Times as a “feminist classic,” and “America’s bestselling book on women’s health,” the comprehensive guide to all aspects of women’s health and sexuality, including menopause, birth control, childbirth, sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental health and general well-being.Six years … Read more
In the quirky town of Laurel, longtime partners Roon and Raud have settled into a comfortable retirement filled with community activism, morning coffee rituals, and affectionate bickering. Their lives were turn upside down when they took in Tristan, a young trans man rejected by his family, who’s still proving himself to the world.
A lesbian divorce attorney falls for her client Hannah, the wife of a detestable former colleague, and as their professional relationship evolves into friendship, Caroline must navigate falling in love with a woman she believes is straight.
Feyport, Illinois, has never known heroes like the Hardly boys. Polite, stylish, and relentlessly brave, Frank—dark-haired and muscular—and his earnest younger brother Joe return from a European vacation to chaos at home. Their parents, famed detective Fennel P. Hardly and his wife, have been kidnapped. So have six prize poodles from the Lake Merrimen Dog … Read more
A collection of interviews with acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde conducted throughout her life, covering her experiences as a poet, activist, cancer survivor, and outsider navigating multiple identities including her lesbianism, race, and Caribbean heritage.
A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection of Writing and Art by North American Indian Women was the first published collection of Indigenous women’s writing in North America, as well as the first anthology edited by an aboriginal woman. The book was edited by Mohawk author and anthologist Beth Brant. It was first published in 1983 as a special issue … Read more
Sally Gearhart and Susan Rennie reveal how the traditional Tarot deck, with all its richness and mystery, can be read as a women’s Tarot, to unlock the conscious and unconscious realities surrounding certain questions and problems in women’s lives. From a feminist point of view, they use the traditional Tarot as a tool for self-analysis-to … Read more