Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 4, N0. 3

by Judith Schwarz (Editor)

Volume IV no 3 was an important groundbreaking issue in feminism and women's studies periodicals. A special Lesbian History Issue edited by Judith Schwarz, it contains groundbreaking articles featuring several women couples, among them suffrage leader and orator Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Lucy Anthony (Susan B. Anthony's niece), Sarah Orne Jewett who had a Boston marriage with Annie Fields, and Vida Scudder (a Wellesley College faculty member in the English Department) and her companion Florence Converse. There is also an analysis of Djuana Barnes' Ladies Almanack. Authors include noteworthy lesbian historians or lesbian activists and writers such as Lillian Faderman, Margaret Cruikshank, Elsa Gidlow, Jan Clausen, Patricia McClelland Miller, Lisa Duggan, and others. Essays discuss in detail the deep committed friendships and relationships these women shared, often quoting their journals, diaries or letters. Sections on biography, bibliography. This issue also includes a questionnaire and responses on issues in lesbian history. Vital reading and research into women's lives.

85 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1979