Black Queer and Feminist Studies
- Adeyemi, Kemi. 2022. Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Brown, Jayna. 2021. Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Johnson, E. Patrick. 2018. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Johnson, E. Patrick. 2019. Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Jones, Jennifer Dominique. 2023. Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Musser, A. Jamilla. 2015. “Lesbians, Tea, and the Vernacular of Fluids.” Women & Performance 25(1):23-40.
- Perry, Imani. 2018. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Boston: Beacon.
- Shange, Savannah. 2019. “Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship. The Black Scholar 49(1):40-54.
- Valk, Anne M. 2008. Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, DC. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
History
- Canaday, Margot. 2023. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Gieseking, Jen Jack. 2020. A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers. New York City: New York University Press.
- Hanhardt, Christina B. 2020. Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Samer, Jed. 2022. Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Schulman, Sarah. 2021. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Schulman, Sarah. 2016. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp.
- Smith-Cruz, Shawn(ta), Flavia Rando, Rachel Corbman, Deborah Edel, Morgan Gwenwald, Joan Nestle, and Polly Thistlethwaite. 2016. “Getting from Then to Now: Sustaining the Lesbian Herstory Archives as a Lesbian Organization.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 20(2):213-33.
Lesbian Identity and Culture
- Bessette, Jean. 2018. Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives: Composing Pasts and Futures. SIU Press.
- Groeneveld, Elizabeth. 2023. Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity. New York: Routledge.
- Hagai, Ella Ben. 2023. “Changes in Lesbian Identity in the 21st Century.” Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 49:101508.
- Hagai, Ella Ben, Rachelle Annechino, and Tamar Antin. 2022. “Comparing Conceptions of Gender, Sexuality and Lesbian Identity between Baby Boomers and Millennials.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 26(3):216-34.
- Harker, Jaime. 2018. The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Walters, Karina. L., Teresa Evans-Campbell, Jane M. Simoni, Theresa Ronquillo, and Rupaleem Bhuyan. 2006. “’My Spirit in My Heart’: Identity Experiences and Challenges Among American Indian Two-Spirit Women.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 10(1–2):125–49.
Lesbian Erasure
- Escudero-Alías, Maite. 2022. “The Institutionalization of Queer Theory: Where Has Lesbian Criticism Gone?” Journal of Lesbian Studies 26(3):253-68.
- Hagai, Ella Ben, and Nicole Seymour. 2021. “Is Lesbian Identity Obsolete?” Journal of Lesbian Studies 26(1):1-11.
- Morris, Bonnie. J. 2016. The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press.
- Tate, Charlotte Chucky. 2021. “Is Lesbian Identity Obsolete? Some (Limited) Answers and Further Questions from a Unique Philology of Human Behavioral Science Perspective.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 26(3):199–215.
Feminist Spaces and Movements
- Alarcón, Wanda. 2022. “’Ten Dyke Marches All Over LA’: A Conversation with Judy Ornelas Sisneros.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 26(3):286-302.
- Currans, Elizabeth. 2017. Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- Hesford, Victoria. 2013. Feeling Women’s Liberation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Hogan, Kristen. 2016. The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Luis, Keridwen N. 2018. Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Mims, La Shonda. 2022. Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Valk, Anne. M. 2010. “Living a Feminist Lifestyle: The Intersection of Theory and Action in a Lesbian Feminist Collective.” In No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt, 221–45. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Performance, Art, and Media
- Bernstein, Robin. 2012. “Utopian Movements: Nikki Giovanni and the Convocation following the Virginia Tech Massacre.” African American Review 45(3):341-53.
- Corbman, Rachel. 2019. “The Wide World of Lesbian Cats, 1970-Today.” Exhibition at The Center: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Center, New York City, July-August.
- Croft, Clare, ed. 2017. Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Huang, Vivian. L. 2022. Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Warner, Sara. 2012. Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Reproduction and Family
- Matthiesen, Sarah. 2021. Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Moore, Mignon. 2011. Invisible families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Trans, Queer, and Feminist Studies
- Awkward-Rich, Cameron. 2017. “Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading like a Depressed Transsexual.” Signs 42(4):819-41.
- Awkward-Rich, Cameron. 2022. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- LaFleur, Greta, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska, eds. 2021. Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Lewis, Rachel. 2013. “Deportable Subjects: Lesbians and Political Asylum.” Feminist Formations 25(2):174-94.
- Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Provitola, Blase A. 2022. “TERF or Transfeminist Avant la Lettre? Monique Wittig’s Complex Legacy in Trans Studies.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 9(3):387-406.
- Robcis, Camille. 2015. “Catholics, the ‘Theory of Gender,’ and the Turn to the Human in France: A New Dreyfus Affair?” The Journal of Modern History, 87(4), 892-923.
- Thomsen, Carly, and Laurie Essig. 2021. “Lesbian, Feminist, TERF: A Queer Attack on Feminist Studies.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 26(1):27-44.