...- jects with a respect—even a delight—that enlivens their arguments and helps tomakethemsatisfying. Carlo Rotella, Boston College Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity...

... Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century. By Alan Sinfield. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2000. vii, 407 pp. $29.95. It is a commonplace to assert that ‘‘the media’’ in the last thirty years has...

... supplies a useful name glossary (which would have beenhelpfulinvolume1aswell). Jason Stacy, Loyola University, Chicago Making Girls into Women: American Women’s Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity. By Kathryn R. Kent. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 355 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper...

...Dona Yarbrough Duke University Press 2003 Dona A Queer Form of Trauma: Yarbrough Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 125 of 246 The destruction of records and memorabilia...

... over into Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations, whose controlling trope, for me, is the shifting na- ture of gay and lesbian history and identity. This book is largely the product of the 1995 Graduate Student Conference held at the University of Southern Cali- fornia...

... . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2018 . ix, 333 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel . By Natasha Hurley . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2018 . xviii, 320 pp. Cloth, $108.00 ; paper, $27.00 ; e...

..., Firebrand Book Records held in the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University, and the newsprint collection at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Methodologically, I employ close analysis alongside historiography, using archival materials to inform both. I queer these methods through introducing new kinds...

..., Corrigan’s lucid and detailed fusion of scholarship and analysis makes this book a fine contribution to current Warren studies. Victor Strandberg, Duke University Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance...

... the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History . By Scott Herring. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2007. xv, 278 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $25.00. Book Reviews Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. Ed. Thomas A. Foster...

...Ralph Rodriguez © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity . By Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2005. 176 pp. Paper, $19.95. With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians...

... relinquishing a presumably dirty and immature gay past in favor of a newfound respectability. Claiming that this process of cleansing works to create a “deadened subjectivity,” he links the contemporary struggles of gay men and lesbians with that of enslaved Africans by arguing that the ideological structures...

... demonstrate the need to situate such groups within the history of the American left, moving from the breakdown of grassroots coalitions of the sixties right through debates on the hierarchies of power in cultural life—in particular the critique of Marxian-derived models by gay and lesbian activists. © 2009...

... of the Affects . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Butler Judith . 2004 . Undoing Gender . New York : Routledge . Califia Pat . 1994 . “ A Secret Side of Lesbian Sexuality .” In Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex , 157 – 64 . Pittsburgh : Cleis Press . Carrington André M...

... to think about the inherent strangeness of all children. Stockton begins with a general introduction that catalogs dominant tropes by which the queer child becomes legible in twentieth-century literature and culture: the ghostly gay child who haunts the history of the grown gay man or lesbian...

..., Corrigan’s lucid and detailed fusion of scholarship and analysis makes this book a fine contribution to current Warren studies. Victor Strandberg, Duke University Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance...