Modern Lesbian History

Ainley, Rosa

What Is She Like?: Lesbian Identities from the 1950s to the 1990s. London: Cassell, 1995.

Beacon Press

Improper Bostonians: Lesbians and Gay Heritage from the Puritans to Playland. Beacon Press, 1999.

Bonnet, Marie-Jo

Les relations amoureuses entre les femmes. Paris: Odile Jacob, 1995.

Carlston, Erin G.

Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity. Stanford University Press, 1998.

Castle, Terry

The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Chauncey, George, Jr.

"From sexual inversion to homosexuality: medicine and the changing conceptualization of female feviance", Salmagundi (1982/83), pp. 114-46.

Cohen, Daniel A. (ed.)

"Female Marine" and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Davis, Madeline and Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky

"Oral history and the study of sexuality in the lesbian community: Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960", Feminist Studies, 12, 1 (Spring 1986), 7-28.

Doan, Laura

Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Faderman, Lillian

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Faderman, Lillian

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. Reprint 2000

Faderman, Lillian

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America – A History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Ford, Ruth

"Lesbians and loose women: Female sexuality and the women's services during World War II", in J. Damousi and M. Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians at War in the 20th Century, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Ford, Ruth

Speculating on scrapbooks, sex and desire: Issues in Lesbian History", Australian Historical Journal, 106, April 1996.

Grier, Barbara, and Reid, Coletta (eds)

Lesbian Lives: Biographies of Women from the Ladder. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1976. Includes Amelia Earhart, Colette, Willa Cather, Marie Antoinette, Sarah Teasdale, Rosa Bonheur, Madame de Stael, Dorothy Thompson, Edith Hamilton, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Griffin, Gabriele (ed.)

Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture. London and Boulder, Colorado: Pluto Press, 1993.

Halberstam, Judith

Female Masculinity. Duke University Press, 1998

Hennegen, Alison

"Lesbians in Literature", Gay Left, no. 9, 1979, pp. 20-5.

Hennegen, Alison

"On Becoming a Lesbian Reader", in S. Radstone (ed.), Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988, pp. 165-90.

Harris, Bertha

"The more profound nationality of their lesbianism: Lesbian society in Paris in the 1920's", in Phyllis Birkby et al. (eds), Amazon Expedition: A Lesbian Feminist Anthology. New York: Times Change Press, 1973, pp. 77-88. Discusses Natalie Barney, Romaine Brooks, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas.

Jeffreys, Sheila

"Butch and femme: Now and then", in Lesbian History Group, Not a Passing Phase (1989, 1993), 158-87 (earlier version pub. 1987).

Jeffreys, Sheila

"Does it matter if they did it?", in Lesbian History Group, Not a Passing Phase (1989, 1993), 19-28 (orig. pub. 1984).

Jeffreys, Sheila

The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930. London: Pandora, 1985.

Johnson, Pam

"Edith Simcox and heterosexism in biography: a lesbian- feminist exploration", in Lesbian History Group, Not a Passing Phase (1989, 1993), 55-76.

Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky

"But we would never talk about it: the structures of lesbian discretion in South Dakota, 1928-1933", in Ellen Lewin (ed.), Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America, Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Davis, Madeline

"`They was no one to mess with': The construction of the butch role in the lesbian community of the 1940s and 1950s", in Nestle, The Persistent Desire (1992), pp. 62-79.

Koski, Fran and Maida Tilchen

"Some Pulp Sappho", in Lesbian Feminist Writing and Publishing, special issue of Margins Magazine, No. 8 (1975).

Lesbian History Group (ed.)

Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985. London: Women's Press, 1989.

Lister, Anne

I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries [1817-1824] of Anne Lister (1791-1840), ed. Helena Whitbread. London: Virago, 1988.

Lister, Anne

No Priest But Love: Excerpts from the Diaries of Anne Lister, 1824-1826, ed. Helena Whitbread. Otley, West Yorkshire: Smith Settle, 1992.

MacCowan, Lyndall

"Re-collecting history, renaming lives: Femme stigma and the feminist seventies and eighties", in Nestle, The Persistent Desire (1992), pp. 299-328.

Martin, Sylvia

Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin. London: Onlywomen Press, 2001. The life of Australian writer Mary Fullerton (1868-1946) and her life-long companion Mabel Singleton and their circle.

Miller, Elaine

"Through all changes and through all chances: The relationship of Ellen Nussey and Charlotte Bronte", in Lesbian History Group, Not a Passing Phase (1989, 1993), 29-54.

Munt, Sally R., with photographs by Cherry Smith

Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender. Cassell, 1998 reissue

Newton, Esther

"The mythic mannish lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 9, 4 (1984), 557-75. Reprinted in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 281-93.

Oram, Alison and Turnbull, Annmarie

Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain, 1780-1970. Routledge, 2001.

Rich, Adrienne

"Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence" (orig. pub. 1982), in Abelove et al., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993), 227-54.

Rule, Jane

Lesbian Images. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1975. Includes: Radclyffe Hall, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Vita Sackville-West, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Elizabeth Bowen, Colette, Violette Leduc, Margaret Anderson, Dorothy Baker, May Sarton, Maureen Duffy.

Schoppmann, Claudia

Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll

"Discourses of sexuality and subjectivity: the New Woman, 1870-1936", orig. pub. 1985, reprinted in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 264-80.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll

"The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America", Signs, 1 (Autumn 1975), pp. 1-29. A seminal essay.

Stanley, Liz

"Epistemological issues in researching lesbian history: the case of romantic friendship", in Hilary Hinds, Ann Phoenix and Jackie Stacey (eds), Working Out: New Directions for Women's Studies, Falmer Press, 1992.

Thorpe, Rochella

"A house where queers go: African-American lesbian nightlife in Detroit, 1940-1975", in Ellen Lewin (ed.), Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America, Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Turner, Kay (ed.)

Dear Sappho: A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters. London: Thames & Hudson, 1996.

Vicinus, Martha

Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Review.

Weiss, Andrea

Paris Was a Woman, new edn. Pandora Press, 1998.