Sapphic history books / Libros de historia sáfica
Books about lesbians and bisexuals in history / libros sobre lesbianas y bisexuales en la historia
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Más señoras que se empotraron hace mucho
Cristina Domenech • 2022
"¿Dónde están las lesbianas en la historia? Más señoras, más bolleras de la historia, más personajes fascinantes... Tras el éxito de Señoras que se empotraron hace mucho, vuelve Cristina Domenech --académica y experta en literatura-- para dar voz a nuevas mujeres que se atrevieron a amar a otras. Desde Madame de Murat y Winnaretta Singer hasta Katherine Mansfield, Elsie de Wolfe o Nobuko Yoshiya, entre mucas otras, este es un recorrido deslumbrante que nos lleva del siglo XVII al XX revelándonos las historias íntimas y los secretos de estas señoras brillantes que fueron en contra de todas las convenciones sociales, haciendo del amor, la sexualidad libre y la creación artística su revolución"--Page 4 of cover
Señoras que se empotraron hace mucho
Cristina Domenech • 2019
Señoras ilustres: Que se empotraron hace mucho
Cristina Domenech • 2020
To be read
Correspondencia erótica Virginia Woolf - Vita Sackville-West
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Hijab Butch Blues A Memoir
Lamya H • 2023
Victoria Ocampo & Virginia Woolf - Correspondencia
Virginia Woolf • 2024
Paper Bullets Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Jeffrey H. Jackson • 2020
Gentleman Jack / Caballero jack
Angela Steidele • 2018
No Soy un Bombero pero Tampoco Ando con Puntillas Lesbianas en Argentina, 1930-1976
Alejandra Sardá • 2001
Tales Of The Lavender Menace A Memoir Of Liberation
Karla Jay • 2000
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Hugh Ryan · 2022
Just One of the Boys Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
Gillian M Rodger • 2018
Female-to-male crossdressing became all the rage in the variety shows of nineteenth-century America and began as the domain of mature actresses who desired to extend their careers. These women engaged in the kinds of raucous comedy acts usually reserved for men. Over time, as younger women entered the specialty, the comedy became less pointed and more centered on the celebration of male leisure and fashion. <p>Gillian M. Rodger uses the development of male impersonation from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century to illuminate the history of the variety show. Exploding notions of high- and lowbrow entertainment, Rodger looks at how both performers and forms consistently expanded upward toward respectable—and richer—audiences. At the same time, she illuminates a lost theatrical world where women made fun of middle-class restrictions even as they bumped up against rules imposed in part by audiences. Onstage, the actresses' changing performance styles reflected gender construction in the working class and shifts in class affiliation by parts of the audiences. Rodger observes how restrictive standards of femininity increasingly bound male impersonators as new gender constructions allowed women greater access to public space while tolerating less independent behavior from them.</p>
Female Masculinity
Judith Halberstam • 1998
Persistence All Ways Butch and Femme
Ivan Coyote • 2011
<p><b>Lambda Literary Award finalist</b><br><br><b>American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book</b><br><br>In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is <i>Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme</i>. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words "butch" or "femme."</p><p>Contributors such as Jewelle Gomez (<i>The Gilda Stories</i>), Thea Hillman (<i>Intersex</i>), S. Bear Bergman (<i>Butch is a Noun</i>), Chandra Mayor (<i>All the Pretty Girls</i>), Amber Dawn (<i>Sub Rosa</i>), Anna Camilleri (<i>Brazen Femme</i>), Debra Anderson (<i>Code White</i>), Anne Fleming (<i>Anomaly</i>), Michael V. Smith (<i>Cumberland</i>), and Zoe Whittall (<i>Bottle Rocket Hearts</i>) explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities. It's a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today’s ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come.</p><p>Includes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of <i>The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader</i>, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992.</p><p><b>Ivan E. Coyote</b> is the author of seven books (including the novel <i>Bow Grip</i>, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book) and a long-time muser on the trappings of the two-party gender system.</p><p><b>Zena Sharman</b> is the assistant director of Canada's national Institute of Gender and Health.</p><br>
She and Her Pretty Friend
Danielle Scrimshaw • 2023
Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
Laura Horak • 2016
To Believe In Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
Lillian Faderman Professor • 2000
This landmark work of lesbian history focuses on how certain late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as lesbian were in the forefront of the battle to secure the rights and privileges that large numbers of Americans enjoy today. Lillian Faderman persuasively argues that their lesbianism may in fact have facilitated their accomplishments. A book of impeccable research and compelling readability, TO BELIEVE IN WOMEN will be a source of enlightenment for all, and for many a singular source of pride.
Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
Erica Fischer • 2015
Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film
Andrea Weiss • 1993
A revelatory survey of lesbian identity in film--from the crossdressing stars like Garbo, Dietrich, and Hepburn to the vampire movies of the late '60s, Silkwood and The Color Purple. With wit and political acumen, Weiss reveals the concealed world of a host of movies both popular and forgotten. 160 photos.
The Stonewall Reader
Edmund White • 2019
<b>For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.<br><br>Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by The Publishing Triangle<i><br>Tor.com</i>, Best Books of 2019 (So Far)<br> <i>Harper’s Bazaar</i>, The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019<br> <i>The Advocate</i>, The Best Queer(ish) Non-Fiction Tomes We Read in 2019</b><br><br>June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered the most significant event in the gay liberation movement, and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, The Stonewall Reader is a collection of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots. Most importantly the anthology spotlights both iconic activists who were pivotal in the movement, such as Sylvia Rivera, co-founder of Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), as well as forgotten figures like Ernestine Eckstein, one of the few out, African American, lesbian activists in the 1960s. The anthology focuses on the events of 1969, the five years before, and the five years after. Jason Baumann, the NYPL coordinator of humanities and LGBTQ collections, has edited and introduced the volume to coincide with the NYPL exhibition he has curated on the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation movement of 1969.
Elisa y Marcela. Amigas y amantes
Narciso de Gabriel • 2019
Elisa Sánchez Loriga, convertida en Mario, y Marcela Gracia Ibeas se casaron en la iglesia de San Jorge de la ciudad de A Coruña el 8 de junio de 1901. Una vez descubierto el «matrimonio sin hombre», las autoridades iniciaron una persecución que las obligó a buscar refugio en Portugal primero y posteriormente en Argentina. En este libro se reconstruye su historia, se analiza el proceso al que fueron sometidas, se considera la repercusión pública del singular matrimonio y se ofrecen algunas claves para iluminar sus vidas, unidas por la amistad y el amor. En el epílogo se relatan las noticias que sobre ellas nos han llegado desde 2008.
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Elizabeth Kennedy • 1994
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century América
Lillian Faderman • 1992
Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life.<br/>"A key work...the point of reference from which all subsequent studies of 20th-century lesbian life in the United States will begin."—San Francisco Examiner.
The Sewing Circle
Axel Madsen • 2015
Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck—to name a few—maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off the set, all three box office divas were involved in “lavender” marriages (marriages of convenience, often to gay men) or remained stoically single. They, and several other Hollywood starlets of the era, were members of a discreet women’s “club” called the Sewing Circle, Hollywood’s underground lesbian society. Madsen takes a candid look at the very complicated dual lives these great stars led and the impact their preference for same-sex relationships had on their movie careers.
El Círculo Sáfico: Lesbianismo y bisexualidad en el Madrid de principios del siglo XX
Paula Villanueva • 2024
Paula Villanueva. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 275-282).
Monjas lesbianas/ Lesbian Nuns: Se Rompe El Silencio/Lesbian Nuns : Breaking Silence
Rosemary Curb • 1985
The LGBTQ + History Book (DK Big Ideas)
DK • 2023
<b>Presents a bold and accessible overview of LGBTQ+ history: the good, the bad, and the clandestine. <b></b></b><br><br><b>Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world—their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.</b><br> <br>Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to the Kinseys' modern sexuality studies, and features biographies of key figures from Anne Lister to Allen Ginsberg.<br> <br><i>The LGBTQ+ History Book</i> celebrates the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history, such as the Stonewall Riots and first transgender surgeries, as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution, from the Renaissance Italian “Night Police” to the 20th century “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. The book also includes major cultural cornerstones—the secret language of polari, Black and Latinx ballroom culture, and the many flags of the community—and the history of LGBTQ+ spaces, from 18th-century “molly houses” to modern “gayborhoods.” <br> <br>Using the “Big Ideas” series’ trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, <i>The LGBTQ+ History Book</i> celebrates the long, proud—and often hidden—history of LGBTQ+ people, cultures, and places from around the world.<br> <br><br><br>
So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
Kate Moennig • 2025
The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader
Joan Nestle • 1992
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives
Amelia Possanza • 2023
<b>Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography<br><br>For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, <i>Lesbian Love Story</i> is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love</b><br><br>When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world’s largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life.<br><br>Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is Possanza’s journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on. Possanza’s hunt takes readers from a drag king show in Bushwick to the home of activists in Harlem and then across the ocean to Hadrian’s Library, where she searches for traces of Sappho in the ruins. Along the way, she discovers her own love—for swimming, for community, for New York City—and adds her record to the archive.<br><br>At the heart of this riveting, inventive history, Possanza asks: How could lesbian love help us reimagine care and community? What would our world look like if we replaced its foundation of misogyny with something new, with something distinctly <i>lesbian</i>?
Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line
Elizabeth Lovatt • 2025
A narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives" (Publishers Weekly). With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family. With callers and agents alike dealing with first crushes and break-ups, sex and marriage, loneliness and illness, this is a celebration of the ordinary lives of queer women. Through these revelations of the complexities, difficulties and revelries of everyday life, Lovatt investigates the ethics of writing about queer 'sheros' and the role living-history plays in the way we live today. What do we owe to our lesbian forebears? What can we learn from them when facing racism, transphobia and ableism in the community today? Steeped in pop culture references and feminist and queer theory, Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a timely and vital exploration of how lesbian identity continues to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century, and where it might lead us in the future.
Después de Safo
Selby Wynn Schwartz · 2023
El sótano de San Telmo una barricada proletaria para el deseo lésbico en los '70
Val Flores • 2015
