...- 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. By...

... 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...

... 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...

...-shirt in order to join an already naked partner awaiting her in bed; her evening is likely far from over. While this image is fairly innocuous in its portrayal of an imminent intimate encounter, the inclusion of lesbian sexuality as something that can be playfully tackled in a T-shirt advertisement...

..., 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...

...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 and...

... 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...

...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...

... ultimately 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...

..., 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...

... honorable mention was awarded to Margaret Galvan for “‘The Lesbian Norman Rockwell’: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks” (90:2, June 2018). Members of the judging committee were Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (chair), University of California, Irvine; Emily Bernard, University of Vermont; and James J...

... and lesbian critics of Cather’’ (Willa Cather: Queering America). That Lindemann’s own book was unavailable to Acocella is unfortunate; it is the apotheosis of the agenda-driven political criticism to which...

... intersubjective nature of the psyche, its suspension in a web of ties beginning with the one between mother and child. More spe- cifically, she takes the mother-daughter dyad as a template for lesbian desires involving at once identification and desire, connection and separation. Ris- kin, speaking more broadly...