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English 315/Women’s Studies 315:
Women in Literature: Lesbian Fictions

Lesbian studies and criticism: general reading list

Charlotte Brunsdon, Films for Women (London: BFI Publishing, 1986)

Rosalind Brunt and Caroline Rowan, eds, Feminism, Culture and Politics (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1982)

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity (London: Routledge, 1990)

Sue-Ellen Case, 'Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic' in Lynda Hart, ed. Making a Spectacle (University of Michigan Press, 1989)

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, ed., Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views (London: Karnac 1985)

Blanche Wiesen Cook, 'Women Alone Stir My Imagination: Lesbianism and the Cultural Tradition', Signs, 4 (Summer 1979)

Margaret Cruikshank, The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (London: Routledge, 1993)

Teresa de Lauretis, 'Sexual indifference and lesbian representation', Theatre Journal, 40 (May 1988)

Differences, Vol 3, Summer 1991: Queer Theory, Lesbian and Gay Sexualities (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)

Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801 (London: Scarlet, 1993)

Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus et al, Hidden from History: Reclaiming the lesbian and gay past (New York: New American Library, 1989)

Richard Dyer, Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film (London:Routledge, 1990)

Penelope Engelbrecht, '"Lifting Belly is a Language": The post-modern lesbian subject', Feminist Studies, 16 (Spring 1990), 85-114

Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, Body Guards: The cultural politics of gender ambiguity (London: Routledge, 1991)

Lillian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (New York: Morrow, 1985)

Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991)

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vols 1 and 2 (1978, 1984) (Harmondsworth: Penguin)

Estelle B. Freedman et al, The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)

Feminist Review Collective, Feminist Review, Issue 34: Perverse Politics (London: Routledge, 1992)

Diana Fuss, 'Lesbian and Gay Theory: The question of identity politics', in Essentially Speaking (London: Routledge, 1989)

Diana Fuss, ed., Inside/Out: Lesbian and Gay Theories (London: Routledge, 1991)

Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (London: Routledge, 1992)

Leigh Gilmore, 'A Signature of Lesbian Autobiography: "Gertrice/Altrude"', in Shirley Neuman, ed., Autobiography and Questions of Gender (London: Frank Cass, 1992)

Lynda Hart, 'Identity and seduction: lesbians in the mainstream', in Acting Out: Feminist performances, ed. Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993)

Elaine Hobby and Chris White, eds., What Lesbians Do in Books (London: Women's Press, 1991)

Christina Holmlund, 'When is a lesbian not a lesbian? The lesbian continuum and the mainstream femme film', Camera Obscura, 25-6 (1991), 145-78

Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow, eds., Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions (London: Onlywome, 1992)

Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA, revised edition (Boston: Beacon, 1992)

Lesbian History Group, Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 (London: Women's Press, 1989)

Elizabeth Meese, Sem(erotics): Theorizing lesbian writing (New York: New York University Press, 1992)

Mandy Merck, Perversions: Deviant Readings (London: Virago, 1993) [including '"Transforming the suit: a century of lesbian self-portraits', 'Lianna and the lesbians of art cinema', and 'The feminist ethics of lesbian S/M']

Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzualda, eds., This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by radical women of colour (New York: Kitchen Table Press, 1983)

Sally Munt, ed., New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)

Paulina Palmer, 'Contemporary Lesbian Feminist Fiction: Texts for Everywoman', in Plotting Change: Contemporary Women's Fiction (London: Edward Arnold, 1990), 42-62

Paulina Palmer, Comtemporary Lesbian Writing (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1993)

Susannah Radstone, ed., Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1988) [includes Alison Hennegan, 'On Becoming a Lesbian Reader', Sally Munt, 'The Investigators: Lesbian Crime Fiction']

Suzanne Raitt, ed., Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Lesbian Feminist Studies (London: Onlywomen, 1993) [includes essays on Restoration, Charlotte Mew, Mary Taylor, Jeanette Winterson etc.]

Judith Roof, A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991)

Catharine Stimpson, 'Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English', in Writing and Sexual Difference, ed. Elizabeth Abel (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1982)

Jeffrey Weeks, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (London: Quartet, 1977)

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