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Manuscript Collections
Dorothy Allison Papers, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University Special Collections Library
Barbara Grier–Naiad Press Collection, San Francisco Public Library
Catherine Nicholson Papers, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University Special Collections Library
Minnie Bruce Pratt Papers, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University Special Collections Library
Mab Segrest Papers, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University Special Collections Library
Sophia Smith Collection, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Smith College
Books and Articles
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Bersani, Leo. “Is the Rectum a Grave?” October 43 (Winter 1987): 197–222.
Bibler, Michael. Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.
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______. A Plain Brown Rapper. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1976.
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______. Six of One. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.
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______. “ ‘Violet Hill Elementary School’ and ‘Fort Lauderdale High,’ from the novel Rubyfruit Jungle.” Amazon Quarterly: A Lesbian-Feminist Arts Journal 1, no. 2 (1973): 6–17.
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Enszer, Julie. “ ‘The Black and White of It’: Barbara Grier Editing and Publishing Women of Color.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 18, no. 4 (2014): 346–71.
______. “ ‘Fighting to Create and Maintain Our Own Black Women’s Culture’: Conditions Magazine 1970–1990.” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography 25, no. 2 (2015): 160–76.
______. “The Whole Naked Truth of Our Lives: Lesbian-Feminist Print Culture from 1969–1989.” PhD diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2013. ProQuest 3590787.
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. First published 1992.
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______. I Still Dream about You. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.
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______, ed. Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second Wave Feminism in the United States. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
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______. “ ‘What the Eyes Did Not Wish to Behold’: Lessons from Ann Allen Shockley’s Say Jesus and Come to Me.” South Atlantic Quarterly 112, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 285–302.
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______. Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
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