For Further Research

This section offers a selected list of major publications by the writers discussed in this book. The aim of this bibliography is to give readers a centralized list of the key works that southern lesbian feminists contributed to the women in print movement, with the further aim of facilitating additional research. I list the authors alphabetically; I list each author’s works chronologically. This is neither an exhaustive list of each writer’s publications nor a comprehensive list of all the writers who published during this time. (Rita Mae Brown, Fannie Flagg, and Alice Walker, in particular, have many more publications than I have listed here.) When useful, I have included either the original publication information or the first publication by a feminist press. If the text has been reprinted more recently, I also include that information to help readers find more accessible copies. I have also included a list of the major feminist periodicals that many of these authors either edited or published in, or both. This list is not comprehensive, but it gives readers a sense of when the periodical was published and the southern writers and editors involved with the publication. Finally, I have listed the archival collections I used, all of which have more information to discover and new authors to investigate.

Allison, Dorothy. The Women Who Hate Me. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1983.

______. Trash. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988.

______. Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, Literature. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988.

______. Bastard out of Carolina. New York: Plume, 1992.

______. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. New York: Plume, 1995.

______. Cavedweller. New York: Dutton, 1998.

Arnold, June. Applesauce. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.

______. “Consciousness-Raising.” In Women’s Liberation: Blueprint for the Future, edited by Sookie Stambler, 155–60. New York: Ace Books, 1970.

______. The Cook and the Carpenter. New York: New York University Press, 1995. First published 1973 by Daughters, Inc.

______. Sister Gin. New York: Feminist Press, 1989. First published 1975 by Daughters, Inc.

______. “Feminist Presses and Feminist Politics.” Quest 3, no. 1 (Summer 1976): 18–26.

______. Baby Houston. Austin, TX: Texas Monthly Press, 1987.

Arnold, June, and Bertha Harris. “Lesbian Fiction.” Sinister Wisdom 1, no. 2 (Fall 1976): 42–51.

Boyd, Blanche McCrary. Nerves. Plainfield, VT: Daughters, Inc., 1973.

______. Mourning the Death of Magic. New York: Macmillan, 1977.

______. The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down-Home Tales. New York: Vintage, 1995. First published 1982.

______. The Revolution of Little Girls. New York: Vintage, 1991.

______. Terminal Velocity. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1997.

______. “Dorothy Allison, Crossover Blues.” In Conversations with Dorothy Allison, edited by Mae Miller Claxton, 17–22. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

Brady, Maureen. Give Me Your Good Ear. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1981.

______. Folly. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

______. The Question She Put to Herself. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1987.

______. Ginger’s Fire. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2003.

Brown, Rita Mae. The Hand that Cradles the Rock. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1974. First published 1971.

______. “ ‘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.

______. Rubyfruit Jungle. Plainfield, VT: Daughters, Inc.: 1973.

______. Songs to a Handsome Woman. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1973.

______. In Her Day. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First published 1976.

______. A Plain Brown Rapper. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1976.

______. Six of One. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.

______. Southern Discomfort. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

______. Sudden Death. New York: Bantam Books, 1984.

______. Bingo. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

______. Venus Envy. New York: Bantam Books, 1994.

______. Alma Mater. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.

Ennis, Catherine. To the Lightning. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1988.

______. South of the Line. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1989.

______. Chautauqua. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1991.

______. Clearwater. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1991.

______. Up, Up and Away. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1994.

______. Time and Time Again. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1996.

______. The Naked Eye. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1998.

Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. New York: Random House, 1987.

______. I Still Dream about You. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.

Gearhart, Sally Miller. The Wanderground. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1979.

______. The Kanshou (Earthkeep). Denver, CO: Spinsters Ink, 2002.

______. The Magister (Earthkeep). Denver, CO: Spinsters Ink, 2003.

Grier, Barbara. Lesbiana: Book Reviews from The Ladder, 1966–1972. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Books, 1976.

Harris, Bertha. Catching Saradove. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1969.

______. Confessions of Cherubino. New York: Daughters, Inc., 1978. First published 1972.

______. “The More Profound Nationality of Their Lesbianism: Lesbian Society in Paris in the 1920s.” In Amazon Expedition: A Lesbian Feminist Anthology, edited by Phyllis Birkby, Bertha Harris, Jill Johnston, Ester Newton, and Jan O’Wyatt, 77–88. Cedar Rapids, IA: Times Change Press, 1973.

______. Lover. New York: New York University Press, 1993. First published 1976.

______. “What We Mean to Say: Notes toward Defining the Nature of Lesbian Literature.” Heresies 1, no. 3 (Fall 1977): 5–8.

King, Florence. Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. New York: St. Martins, 1993. First published 1975.

______. When Sisterhood Was in Flower. New York: Viking Press, 1982.

______. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. New York: St. Martins, 1990.

Ortiz Taylor, Sheila. Faultline. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1982.

______. Southbound. Midway, FL: Spinsters Ink, 1990.

______. OutRageous. Midway, FL: Spinsters Ink, 2006.

Parker, Pat. Pit Stop. Oakland, CA: Women’s Press Collective, 1973.

______. Child of Myself. Oakland, CA: Women’s Press Collective, 1974.

______. Womanslaughter. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978.

______. Jonestown and Other Madness. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1985.

______. The Complete Works of Pat Parker. Brookville, NY: A Midsummer Nights Press, 2016.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. The Sound of One Fork. Durham, NC: Night Heron Press, 1981.

______. “Reading Maps: Two.” Feminary 12, no. 1 (1982): 121–28.

______. We Say We Love Each Other. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1985.

______. Crime against Nature. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1990.

______. Rebellion: Essays, 1980–1991. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1991.

______. S/He. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1995.

Segrest, Mab. My Mama’s Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1985.

______. Memoir of a Race Traitor. Boston: South End Press, 1994.

Shockley, Ann Allen. Loving Her. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974.

______. The Black and White of It. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1980.

______. Say Jesus and Come to Me. New York: Avon Books, 1982.

______. Celebrating Hotchclaw. Rehoboth Beach, DE: A&M Books, 2005.

South, Cris. Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses: A Novel of Resistance. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Harcourt, 1982.

______. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. London: Women’s Press, 1985. First published 1983.

______. The Temple of My Familiar. New York: Harcourt, 1989.

______. Possessing the Secret of Joy. New York: Harcourt, 1991.

Selected Periodicals

The Ladder, 1956–1972 (especially 1966–72). Contributors include Barbara Grier, Lorraine Hansberry, and Rita Mae Brown.

Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, 1970–85. Contributors include Charlotte Bunch, June Arnold, Bertha Harris, and Dorothy Allison.

Amazon Quarterly, 1972–75. Contributors include Rita Mae Brown and June Arnold.

Sinister Wisdom, 1976–present. Contributors include Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and many more.

Conditions, 1976–90. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Jewelle Gomez, Cheryl Clarke, and Barbara Smith.

Heresies, 1977–93. Contributors include Bertha Harris and Louise Fischman.

Feminary: A Feminist Journal for the South, Emphasizing the Lesbian Vision, 1978–1982. Contributors include Cris South, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Mab Segrest, and Barbara Smith.

Archival Holdings

The San Francisco Public Library. Collections include the Naiad Press archives (which includes individual author files for a number of southern writers, and the correspondence of a wide range of lesbian and feminist writers) and the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center (which includes Barbara Grier’s lesbian literature collection).

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke’s Rubenstein Library. Collections include the manuscripts of Dorothy Allison, Catherine Nicholson, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Mab Segrest, and Blanche McCrary Boyd, the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Collective, and Feminist Movements, 1880s to the present.