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1	Sex Variant Women in Literature more books like this by Jeannette H. Foster add to wishlist Essential history of lesbian literature. Must reading for the serious collector and researcher. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $34.52! \| first editions
2	Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity more books like this by Lisa Duggan add to wishlist On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamoured to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $28.53! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho more books like this by Professor Jane McIntosh Snyder add to wishlist -- Choice see all copies from $2.38! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
4	Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 more books like this by Katherine V Forrest (Selected by) add to wishlist Written in the overheated prose typical of the pulp genre of the 1950s, this collection documents the emergence of a lesbian subculture in postwar America. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $11.55! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherrie Moraga more books like this by Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano add to wishlist In her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian writer Cherrie Moraga has been extremely influential in current debates on culture and identity as an ongoing, open-ended process. Analysing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga's writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
6	Surpassing the love of men. more books like this by Lillian Faderman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies
7	The Queer Sixties more books like this by Professor Patricia Juliana Smith (Editor) add to wishlist As the 1960s recede further into our collective memory, curiosity and nostalgia for this groovy, flower-powered decade persists. Many books have charted the social history of this tumultuous time, but none have provided queer readings of the icons and iconoclasts that peopled its stage. The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural ... see all copies from $3.69! new only from $24.80! \| first editions
8	Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties more books like this by Gay Wachman add to wishlist A critical reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after World War I. Gay Wachman examines work by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf and Radclyffe Hall, along with the less well known Clemence Dane, Rose Allatini and Evadne Price. These writers, she states, created a modernist literary tradition -one that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
9	The lesbian pillow book more books like this by Alison Hennegan add to wishlist Both a personal pleasure and an historical resource, this wide-ranging collection traces the teasingly elusive figure of "the lesbian" down the centuries from the ancient world to today. Lesbians appear in fact - trial transcripts and epitaphs, medical pamphlets, and case histories; and in fiction - through fables and songs, poems and stories, by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.19! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara: Reading Gay American Writers more books like this by Rick Whitaker, Iannis Delatolas (Photographer) add to wishlist A gay writer offers readers a tour of his favorite writers from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, covering Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, and David Wojnarowicz, among others. Excerpt, The Boston Review. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.48! \| first editions
11	Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary more books like this by Jane Garrity add to wishlist Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects. Reading literary texts through the lens of material culture, this book attepts to make a major contribution to modernist ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes more books like this by Mary Lynn Broe (Editor), Catharine Stimpson (Afterword by) add to wishlist Roughly chronological, these essays explore Barnes' early work in the New York newspaper world of the 'teens, proceed through the 1954 publication of "The Antiphon, "and include several approaches to such works as "Ryder, Ladies Almanack, "and "Nightwood. "This judicious mix of essays--many of them illustrated by photographs and drawings--presents ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Semerotics: Theorizing Lesbian: Writing more books like this by Elizabeth A Meese (Editor) add to wishlist What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? What motivates these writers and characterizes their work? What is the nature of their appeal to other lesbian writers and readers? What, finally, are the continuities and discontinuities in the tradition of lesbian writers, from Virginia Woolf to Nicole Brossard? Many ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.56! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Lesbian Postmodern more books like this by Professor Laura L Doan add to wishlist This volume of essays examines a realm as yet untouched in literary and cultural criticism and gender theory; a specifically lesbian postmodern. The essays trace, on the one hand, how some lesbian cultural theory and production foregrounds a politics of difference and marginality and thereby critiques the dominance of patriarchal and heterosexual ... see all copies from $2.59! new only from $16.92! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions more books like this by Renee Vivien, Allen Young, Karla Jay (Editor) add to wishlist Lesbian writers include some of the most innovative and adventurous writers of this century, but only recently have they been given their due attention in terms of critical study. This book is the first anthology to discuss the subject of lesbianism as it relates to the critical interaction among readers, writers, and literary critics. It explores ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937 more books like this by Joan E Dejean, Professor Catherine R Stimpson (Designer) add to wishlist Considering Sappho as a creature of translation and interpretation, a figment whose features have changed with social mores and aesthetics, Joan DeJean constructs a fascinating history of the sexual politics of literary reception. The association of Sappho with female homosexuality has made her a particularly compelling and yet problematic subject ... see all copies from $9.49! new only from $36.00!
17 view cover	Romancing the Margins'?: Lesbian Writing in the 1990s more books like this by Gabrielle Griffin (Editor) add to wishlist Explore modern lesbian writing and the critical response it engenders!Central to current debates in lesbian and gender studies have been the role of the postmodern, the relation between sexual and other identities, the issues of marginalization at the intersections of race, class and sexuality, and definitions of lesbian identities. In this volume ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95!
18 view cover	Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II more books like this by Sandra Jones, Sonya L Jones (Editor) add to wishlist Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II chronicles the multifaceted explosion of gay and lesbian writing that has taken place in the second half of the twentieth century. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter and a balance of gay and lesbian concerns, it includes work by established scholars as well as young theoreticians and ... see all copies from $3.47! new only from $19.50!
19 view cover	Black Literature and Literary Theory more books like this by Catharine R Stimpson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. add to wishlist The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In truth, however, black literature not only has a complex relation to the canon but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical strategies even more than it echoes black vernacular form ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $29.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature more books like this by George Haggerty (Editor), Bonnie Zimmerman (Editor) add to wishlist Professions of Desire includes examples of lesbian and gay literary analysis and thoughtful discussions about what it means to be lesbian, gay, or queer in the literature classroom. The four essays in the first section, "Teaching Positions", examine teaching from a theoretical perspective, analyze the role of the professor in the classroom, and ... see all copies from $2.88! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film more books like this by Christine Coffman add to wishlist How "the insane lesbian" became a popular stereotype. see all copies from $16.00! new only from $33.97! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions more books like this by Paulina Palmer add to wishlist Tracing the growth of lesbian Gothic fiction over the 25 years since the advent of the Women's Movement and Gay Liberation in the 1970s, this text discusses a wide selection of novels and stories, contextualizing and re-evaluating them in the light of changing currents in lesbian/queer culture and politics. The figure of the lesbian, frequently ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Critical Essays more books like this by Emmanuel Nelson add to wishlist This pioneering work is the first book to systematically explore the literature of gay and lesbian writers of color in the United States. Critical Essays challenges the marginalization and tokenization of gay men and lesbians of color in the dominant academic discourses by focusing exclusively on the imaginative work of representative Native ... see all copies from $6.54! new only from $58.16!
24 view cover	Damned Women more books like this by Professor Jennifer Waelti-Walters add to wishlist "Damned Women" charts the previously unexplored literary territory of the place of lesbians in the French novel. Beginning with the early depictions of lesbians as 'decadent monsters' by nineteenth-century male authors such as Diderot, Balzac, and Gautier, Jennifer Waelti-Walters shows how later, little-known female writers struggled to free ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $22.94! \| SVS
25	Reflecting on the Well of Loneliness more books like this by Rebecca O'Rourke add to wishlist A feminist reading of Radcliffe Hall's international bestseller and her both inspiring and infuriating heroine Stephen Gordon. She includes a fascinating survey of readers' responses to the book. This book should be of interest to general readers and students and teachers in women's studies, literature, and sociology. see all copies from $4.20! new only from $17.50! \| first editions

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