Books
Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
University of Minnesota Press, 2011
In the great age of English garden design, eighteenth-century women working in the “sister arts” of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love.
24 Hours of Men
Dancing Girl Press, 2018
Lisa Moore’s poems interrogate her lesbian relationships to men and masculinity with anger, love, and humor….
Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel
Duke University Press, 1997
Dangerous Intimacies was one of the first books to challenge the idea, common in feminist and queer studies, that sex between women was unimaginable before the late nineteenth century.
Collected Poems of Anna Seward
Routledge, 2015
This critical edition of the poems of Anna Seward (1742-1809) re-establishes one of the most popular and prolific poets of the early Romantic period. Seward’s work influenced Charllotte Smith and Mary Robinson and later both Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions
Oxford University Press, 2012
This book restores a lost chapter in the history of feminism and illuminates the complexity of the rights debates of the eighteenth century. Transatlantic Feminisms… puts eighteenth-century voices in conversation with one another—English, Scots and Irish women; colonists and indigenous women; Loyalists and Patriots; religious leaders and scandal-dogged actresses; slaves and free women of color. These voices both created and challenged Enlightenment ideas of liberty and personhood that we still debate today.
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic
University of Texas Press, 2010
In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which provided a space for women of color and their allies to build relationships based on trust, creativity, and commitment to social justice. Inspired by this experience, this book is both an anthology of new writing and a sourcebook for those who would like to use creative writing and performance to energize their artistic, scholarly, and activist practices.