Lesbian History: General

Bonnet, Marie-Jo

Un Choix sans équivoque: Recherches historiques sur les relations amoureuses entre les femmes XVIe-XXe siècle, Paris: Denoël, 1981.

Castle, Terry, ed.

The Literature of Lesbianism. Columbia University Press, 2003.

Collis, Rose

Portraits to the Wall: Historic Lesbian Lives Unveiled. London: Cassell, 1994.

Corinne, Tee

Women Who Loved Women. Portland: Pearlchild, 1984.

Faderman, Lillian (ed.)

Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.

Faderman, Lillian

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present [1981]. Women's Press, 1985. Orig. pub. 1981. There are more recent editions.

Foster, Jeannette H.

Sex Variant Women in Literature. New York: Vantage Press, 1956.

Griffin, Gabriele

"History with a difference: Telling lesbian herstories", in Griffin, Outwrite (1993), 48-67.

Hastie, Nicki

"Lesbian bibliomythography", in Griffin, Outwrite (1993), 68-85.

Hobby, Elaine and White, Chris (eds)

What Lesbians Do In Books: Lesbians as Writers, Readers and Characters in Literature. London: Women's Press, 1991. "`Lesbians reading' deciphers lesbian meanings and lesbian moments in texts that are not explicitly lesbian . . . and the possibility of lesbian motifs in Sanskrit myth."

Kehoe, Monika (ed.)

Historical, Literary, and Erotic Aspects of Lesbianism. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1986.

Kitzinger, Jenny and Kitzinger, Celia

"`Doing it': Representations of lesbian sex", in Griffin, Outwrite (1993), 9þ25.

Klaich, Dolores

Woman Plus Woman: Attitudes Toward Lesbianism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974 (London: New English Library, 1975).

Maggiore, Dolores J.

Lesbianism: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to the Literature, 1976-1991. Scarecrow Press, 1993.

Nestle, Joan (ed.)

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1992.

Oram, Alison

"Going on an outing: The historic house and queer public history", Rethinking History, 15:2, June: 189-207.

Oram, Alison

"Sexuality in Heterotopia: Time, space and love between women in the historic house", Women's History Review. 2012.

Oram, Alison and Turnbull, Annmarie (eds)

The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and sex between women in Britain from 1780-1970. London: Routledge, 2001

Richards, Dell

Lesbian Lists. Boston: Alyson, 1990.

Rupp, Leila J.

Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women, New York: New York University Press, 2009.

Todd, Janet

Women's Friendship in Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.

Traub, Valerie

The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Vicinus, Martha (ed.)

Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader. Indiana University Press, 1996.

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