Lesbian eXcursions: Journeying through the personal narrative – Bibliography

© Nicki Hastie

Dissertation submitted for the degree of M.A. Modern Literature: Theory and Practice, University of Leicester 1991

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Some parts of this dissertation were revised and subsequently published as Nicki Hastie, “Lesbian Bibliomythography” in Gabriele Griffin (ed.) Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture London: Pluto Press, 1993 pp.68-85

Contents

• Prologue
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Excursus
• Notes
• Bibliography (this page)

Bibliography

I refer the reader who wishes to be reminded of my opinions about sources used in this study to Note 69.

Abel, Elizabeth (ed.)

Writing and Sexual Difference (Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1982)

Abel, Elizabeth, Hirsch, Marianne & Langland, Elizabeth (eds.)

The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1983)

Adelman, Marcy (ed.)

Long Time Passing: Lives of Older Lesbians (Boston: Alyson Publications, 1986)

Brady, Maureen

“Insider/Outsider Coming of Age” in Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions eds. Karla Jay & Joanne Glasgow (New York: New York University Press, 1990)

Brossard, Nicole

“Lesbians of (Writing) Lore” in Out The Other Side: Contemporary Lesbian Writing eds. Christian McEwan & Sue O’Sullivan (London: Virago, 1988).

Brown, Rita Mae

Rubyfruit Jungle (New York: Bantam, 1977 (first published 1973))

Brown, Rita Mae

“Take a Lesbian to Lunch” in Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation eds. Karla Jay & Allen Young (New York: Douglas Books, 1972)

Bruford, W.H.

The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation (London: Cambridge University Press, 1975)

Buckley, Jerome Hamilton

Season of Youth: The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974)

Chew, Martha

“Rita Mae Brown: Feminist Theorist and Southern Novelist” in Women Writers of the Contemporary South ed. Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984)

Christian, Barbara

Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (New York: Pergamon Press, 1985)

Cook, Blanche Wiesen

“Women Alone Stir My Imagination: Lesbianism and the Cultural Tradition” Signs 4, no.4 (Summer 1979): 718-39

Cooper, Fiona

Not the Swiss Family Robinson (London: Virago, 1991)

Crow, Christine

Miss X or The Wolf Woman (London: The Women’s Press, 1990)

DeLynn, Jane

Don Juan in the Village (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1991)

D’Emilio, John

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983)

Faderman, Lillian

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (London: The Women’s Press, 1985 (first published 1981))

Felski, Rita

“The Novel of Self-Discovery: a Necessary Fiction?” Southern Review: Literary and Interdisciplinary Essays 19, no.2 (July 1986): 131-48

Felski, Rita

Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change (London: Hutchinson Radius, 1989)

Ferguson, Mary Anne

“Lisa Alther: The irony of return?” in Women Writers of the Contemporary South ed. Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984)

Fishbein, Leslie

“Rubyfruit Jungle: Lesbianism, Feminism and Narcissism” International Journal of Women’s Studies 7, no.2 (March-April 1984): 155-59

Forrest, Katharine V.

Curious Wine (London: Silver Moon Books, 1990 (first published 1983))

Friedan, Sandra

“Shadowing/Surfacing/Shedding: Contemporary German Writers in Search of a Female Bildungsroman” in The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development eds. Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch & Elizabeth Langland (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1983)

Fuss, Diana

Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference (London: Routledge, 1990)

Gay Left Collective (ed.)

Homosexuality: Power and Politics (London: Allison & Busby, 1980)

Hall, Radclyffe

The Well of Loneliness (London: Virago, 1982 (first published 1928))

Hennegan, Alison

“On Becoming a Lesbian Reader” in Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction ed. Susannah Radstone (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988)

Hirsch, Marianne

“The Novel of Formation as Genre: Between Great Expectations and Lost Illusions” Genre 12, no.3 (Fall 1979): 293-311

Hokenson, Jan

“The Pronouns of Gomorrha: a Lesbian Prose Tradition” Frontiers 10, no.1 (1988): 62-69

Jay, Karla

“Portrait of the Lesbian as a Young Dyke” in Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation eds. Karla Jay & Allen Young (New York: Douglas Books, 1972)

Jay, Karla

“Coming Out as Process” in Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book ed. Ginny Vida (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1978)

Jay, Karla & Glasgow, Joanne (eds.)

Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions (New York: New York University Press, 1990)

Jelinek, Estelle C. (ed.)

Women’s Autobiography: Essays in Criticism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980)

Johnston, Jill

Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973)

Keener, Karen M.

“Out of the Archives and into the Academy: Opportunities for Research and Publication in Lesbian Literature” College English 44, no.3 (March 1982): 301-13

Kennard, Jean E.

“Ourself Behind Ourself: a Theory for Lesbian Readers” Signs 9, no.4 (Summer 1984): 647-62

Kitzinger, Celia

The Social Construction of Lesbianism (London: Sage, 1987)

Klein, Yvonne M.

“Myth and Community in Recent Lesbian Autobiographical Fiction” in Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions (New York: New York University Press, 1990)

Krieger, Susan

“Lesbian Identity and Community: Recent Social Science Literature” Signs 8, no.1 (Autumn 1982): 91-108

Labovitz, Esther Kleinbord

The Mythi of the Heroine: The Female Bildungsroman in the Twentieth Century (New York: Peter Lang, 1986)

Lauretis, Teresa de (ed.)

Feminist Studies/Critical Studies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986)

Lesbian History Group

Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 (London: The Women’s Press, 1989)

Lorde, Audre

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (London: Sheba, 1990 (first published 1982))

Lynch, Lee

“Cruising the Libraries” in Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions eds. Karla Jay & Joanne Glasgow (New York: New York University Press, 1990)

Mandrell, James

“Questions of Genre and Gender: Contemporary American Versions of the Feminine Picaresque” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 20, no.2 (Winter 1987): 149-70

Martin, Del & Lyon, Phyllis

Lesbian/Woman (San Francisco: Gilde Publications, 1972)

Palmer, Paulina

“Contemporary Lesbian Feminist Fiction: Texts for Everywoman” in Plotting Change: Contemporary Women’s Fiction ed. Linda Anderson (London: Edward Arnold, 1990)

Ponse, Barbara

Identities in the Lesbian World: The Social Construction of Self (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978)

Radstone, Susannah (ed.)

Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988)

Redding, Maggie

The Life and Times of Daffodil Mulligan (London: Brilliance Books, 1984)

Rich, Adrienne

Blood, Bread and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 (London: Virago, 1986)

Rule, Jane

Lesbian Images (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1975)

Stambolian, George & Marks, Elaine (eds.)

Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts/Critical Texts (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979)

Stein, Gertrude

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (London: Penguin, 1977 (first published 1933))

Stimpson, Catharine R.

“The Mind, the Body and Gertrude Stein” Critical Inquiry 3 (Spring 1977): 489-506

Stimpson, Catharine R.

“Zero Degree Deviancy: the Lesbian Novel in English” in Writing and Sexual Difference ed. Elizabeth Abel (Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1982)

Stimpson, Catharine R.

“Reading for Love: Canons, Paracanons and Whistling Jo March” New Literary History 21 (1990): 957-76

Stone, Albert E.

Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity from Henry Adams to Nate Shaw (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982)

Wagner, Linda W.

“Plath’s The Bell Jar as Female Bildungsroman” Women’s Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal 12, no.1 (1986): 55-68

Weeks, Jeffrey

Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (London: Quartet, 1977)

Weeks, Jeffrey

Sexuality and its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985)

Weeks, Jeffrey

“Questions of Identity” in The Cultural Construction of Sexuality ed. Pat Caplan (London: Tavistock, 1987)

Weeks, Jeffrey

Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800 (London: Longman, 2nd ed., 1989)

Wilson, Elizabeth

“Tell it Like it is: Women and Confessional Writing” in Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction ed. Susannah Radstone (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988)

Winterson, Jeanette

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (London: Pandora, 1985)

Wittig, Monique

The Lesbian Body (New York: Avon Books, 1975 (Le Corps Lesbien, 1973))

Wittig, Monique

“Paradigm” in Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts/Critical Texts eds. George Stambolian and Elaine Marks (Ithaca: Cornwell University Press, 1979)

Wittig, Monique

“The Straight Mind” in For Lesbians Only: a separatist anthology eds. Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Julia Penelope (London: Onlywomen Press, 1988)

Wittig, Monique

“One is Not Born a Woman” in For Lesbians Only: a separatist anthology eds. Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Julia Penelope (London: Onlywomen Press, 1988)

Zimmerman, Bonnie

“Exiting From patriarchy: The Lesbian Novel of Development” in The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development eds. Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch & Elizabeth Langland (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1983)

Zimmerman, Bonnie

“The Politics of Transliteration: Lesbian Personal Narratives” Signs 9, no. 4 (Summer 1984): 663-82

Zimmerman, Bonnie

“What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism” in The New Feminist Criticism ed. Elaine Showalter (London: Virago, 1986)

Contents

• Prologue
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Excursus
• Notes
• Bibliography (this page)