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 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.

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). Also available from Amazom.com

Vicinus, Martha (ed.)

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

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