Sapphists and Sexologists; Histories of Sexualities Sapphists and Sexologists Histories of Sexualities: Volume 2 Edited by Sonja Tiernan and Mary McAuliffe Sapphists and Sexologists; Histories of Sexualities: Volume 2, Edited by Sonja Tiernan and Mary McAuliffe This book first published 2009 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2009 by Sonja Tiernan and Mary McAuliffe and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0133-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0133-1 For everyone who has contributed to the Lesbian Lives Conference at University College Dublin over the last 16 years TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations......................................................................................x Foreword....................................................................................................xi Sonja Tiernan and Mary McAuliffe Introduction.............................................................................................xvii On Lesbians and Other Animals Sally R. Munt SECTION I. Literature and Historical Fiction Chapter One.................................................................................................2 Lesbian Historical Fiction Emma Donoghue Chapter Two................................................................................................8 From Practice to Paper: The influence of Italian Feminism(s) and lesbian histories on Italian Lesbian Literature Angela Donahoe Chapter Three............................................................................................26 Lesbian, Modernism and Mysticism: How the 1921 Trial of Joyces’s “Ulysses” drove two lesbians to God Holly A. Baggett Chapter Four..............................................................................................41 Emma Donoghue’s “Life Mask:” Rhetoric of hate and terror Stacia Bensyl Chapter Five..............................................................................................56 “It Should Not be so Easy to Construct a Man:” A History of Female to Male Transsexuality in the Journal Urania Sonja Tiernan viii Table of Contents SECTION II. Lesbian Activism and Lesbian Academe. Chapter Six................................................................................................72 In Conversation with Joan Nestle Katherine O’Donnell Chapter Seven............................................................................................87 “Taking your Politics Seriously:” Lesbian History and the Women’s Liberation Movement in England Jeska Rees Chapter Eight...........................................................................................106 “The Marrying Kind?” Intersectional Ambivalence in the Borderlands of Gay Marriage Judy Rohrer Chapter Nine............................................................................................128 Lesbian Conferences in Canada in the 1970s: Sexual and Erotic Spaces? Liz Millward Chapter Ten.............................................................................................144 Embodying Lesbian History? The Shifting Borders of Corporeal Identity Politics Kay Inckle SECTION III. Music,Art and Popular Culture Chapter Eleven........................................................................................168 “Not every girl is a raving bloody Lesbian, you know:” “‘The Killing of Sister George” and female homosexuality in 1960s British Culture Patricia Juliana Smith Chapter Twelve.......................................................................................191 Mainstreaming the “Women’s Music” Scene: Issues of Lesbian Visibility Bonnie J Morris Chapter Thirteen......................................................................................208 Ethel Smyth and the Emergence of the Lesbian Composer Rachel Lewis Sapphists and Sexologists; Histories of Sexualities: Volume 2 ix Chapter Fourteen.....................................................................................227 Living in a see-through closet or in a moment of heightened Lesbian Visibility Annamari Vänskä Contributors.............................................................................................236 Index........................................................................................................239 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Plate 1 The Feline Chapel: Used with permission © Sally R. Munt. Plate 2 Hothead Paisan: Used with permission © Diane DiMassa. Plate 3 Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist: Used with permission © Diane DiMassa. Plate 4 Hothead Paisan and Chicken: Used with permission © Diane DiMassa. Front Piece. Die Freundin, May 14th 1928, Girlfriends: Used with permission of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig, Germany.