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Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity; Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 460–462.
Published: 01 June 2003
...-
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...
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A Queer Form of Trauma: Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 June 2003
...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...
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Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 679–680.
Published: 01 September 2002
... 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...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
... 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...
View articletitled, Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America; Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy; Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of <span class="search-highlight">Lesbian</span> and Gay History
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Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 883–884.
Published: 01 December 2000
...,
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...
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Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 883–884.
Published: 01 December 2003
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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...
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Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity; From Girl to Woman: American Women's Coming-of-Age Narratives
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 March 2005
... 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...
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“The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 407–438.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., 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...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 898–901.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . 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...
View articletitled, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and <span class="search-highlight">Lesbian</span> Novel Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 419–422.
Published: 01 June 2008
...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...
View articletitled, Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity; With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana <span class="search-highlight">Lesbians</span>; “Shakin' Up” Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
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in “The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks
> American Literature
Published: 01 June 2018
Figures 3–8 Letter-writing lesbians. Originally in WomaNews , October 1983–July/August 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives
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New Narrative and the Making of Language Poetry
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 805–832.
Published: 01 December 2009
... 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...
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Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 June 2011
... 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...
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Madre de Sangre / Mother of Blood: Vampirizing La Virgen in Feminist Short Fiction by Terri de la Peña and Kleya Forté-Escamilla
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American Literature 11934288.
Published: 04 July 2025
... women of color, comprises a form of mothering and feminist care work. Both authors advocate for the rightful place of Latina lesbians under the compassionate, loving, and creatively expansive gaze of the Holy Mother. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025...
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in “The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks
> American Literature
Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 2 “Advertisement: WomaNews Workshops and Page Spread.” Originally in WomaNews , March 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives
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in “The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks
> American Literature
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Figure 11 “Advertisement: WomaNews 5th Anniversary! Variety Show!” Originally in WomaNews , November 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives
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in “The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks
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Figure 12 “Advertisement: Get Yourself a WomaNews T-Shirt!” Originally in WomaNews , April 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives
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“Literary Dykes to Watch Out For: A Heloise C. Bland Lecture.” Originally i...
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Figure 9 “Literary Dykes to Watch Out For: A Heloise C. Bland Lecture.” Originally in WomaNews , September 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives
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“Flesh-to-Flesh Contact”: Marvel Comics’ Rogue and the Queer Feminist Imagination
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 251–281.
Published: 01 June 2018
... by demonstrating and exemplifying the pleasures of identification that are multiple, varied, and productive of ever-changing, unforeclosable possibilities for self-reinvention. The queer collapse of desire and identification figured in Rogue’s absorptive touch is also a primary component of the lesbian erotics...
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The New Queer Essentialism
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2011
... 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...
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