Speculating on scrapbooks, sex and desire: Issues in lesbian history

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 106, 1996, Pages 111-126

  Ford, Ruth ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0011155941     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314619608596002     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Ethel May Punshon, Monte-San: The Times Between, Life Lies Hidden, Kobe Japan-Australia Society, Kobe. 1987
2. Feminists' critique of male sexuality as threatening, when some lesbians adopted a masculine style or gender identity, may also have discouraged involvement. Further, feminists' suspicion of sex and their condemnation of young women's flaunting of sexual desire as a betrayal of the feminist cause for women's advancement and independence no doubt alienated many younger women. See Marilyn Lake, 'Sexuality and Feminism: Some Notes on their Australian History', Lilith, no. 7, 1991, pp. 29-45
3. Judith Allen, "'Our Deeply Degraded Sex" and 'The Animal in Man": Rose Scott, Feminism and Sexuality 1890-1925', Australian Feminist Studies, nos 7 and 8, Summer 1988, pp. 65-94
4. and Valerie Steele, Fashion and Eroticism, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985, p. 235
5. On 'net style', see Marilyn Lake, 'The Desire for a Yank: Sexual Relations between Australian Women and American Serviceman during World War II', Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 2, no. 4, April 1992, pp. 632-3
6. Caroll Smith-Rosenberg, 'Discourses of Sexuality and Subjectivity: The New Woman, 1870-1936', in Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey (eds), Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, New American Library Books, New York, 1989, p. 273
7. Monte, 'In Love with a Memory', pp. 18-22; Interview 1985
8. Monte, 'In Love with a Memory', p. 21
9. Anne Summers, 'Marion/Bill Edwards', Refractory Girl, Summer 1974, pp. 21-2
10. Jill Matthews, Good and Mad Women: The Historical Construction of Femininity in Twentieth Century Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1984, pp. 113-22
11. Sue Hardisty, Thanks Girls and Goodbye: The Story of the Australian Women's Land Army, 1942-45, Viking O'Neil, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 38-9, 77, 155, 184, 212
12. Drusilla Modjeska, 'Introduction', in Drusilla Modjeska and Marjorie Pizer (eds), The Poems of Lesbia Harford, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1988, pp. 1-38
13. Denise Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexual and Society in Sydney, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985
14. and Suzanne Falkiner, Eugenia: A Man, Pan Books, Sydney, 1988
15. See for example, Mimi Golligan, 'Alice Anderson', in Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly (eds), Double Time: Women in Victoria, 150 years, Penguin, Melbourne, 1985, pp. 305-11
16. Joy Damousi, 'Depraved and Disorderly: The Sexuality of Convict Women', Labour History, no. 68, May 1995, pp. 30-45
17. Kay Daniels, 'The Flash Mob: Rebellion, Rough Culture and Sexuality in the Female Factories of Van Diemen's Land', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 18, Summer 1993, pp. 151-73
18. Sylvia Martin, 'Rethinking Passionate Friendships: The Writing of Mary Fullerton", Women's History Review, vol. 2, no. 3, 1993, pp. 395-406
19. Katie Holmes, 'Relating Women: Australian Women Diarists and their Relationships, 1920s and 1930s', Lilith, no. 7, Winter 1991, pp. 86-91
20. Gail Reekie, ' "She Was a Lovable Man": Marian/Bill Edwards and the Feminisation of Australian Culture', Journal of Australian Lesbian Feminist Studies, no. 4, June 1994, pp. 43-50
21. Ruth Ford, 'Lady Friends and Sexual Deviationists', op. cit., pp. 33-49
22. For analyses of lesbian history, see Martha Vicinus, 'Sexuality and Power: A Review of Current Work in the History of Sexuality', Feminist Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring 1982, pp. 133-56
23. "They Wonder to which Sex I Belong"', pp. 171-98
24. 'Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory', Radical History Review, no. 60, Fall 1994, pp. 57-75
25. See Lillian Faderman, 'The Morbidification of Love between Women by Nineteenth Century Sexologists', Journal of Homosexuality, no. 4, 1978, pp. 73-90
26. Sheila Jeffreys, The Spinster and her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality, 1880-1930, Pandora, London, 1985
27. For critiques of this approach, see Sonya Ruehl, 'Inverts and Experts: Radclyffe Hall and the Lesbian Identity', in Rosalind Brunt and Caroline Cowan (eds), Feminism, Culture and Politics, Lawrence & Wishardt, London, 1982, pp. 15-36
28. Esther Newton, 'The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman', in Duberman et al. (eds), op. cit., pp. 281-93
29. and Vicinus, 'Sexuality and Power', and "'They Wonder to which Sex I Belong"'
30. Vicinus,' "They Wonder to which Sex I Belong" '
31. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Routledge, London, 1990
32. For narratives of lesbian Koori experience, which emphasise the centrality of Aboriginality to their identity and experience, see Betty, 'Long Old Road', in Bradstock and Wakeling (eds), op. cit., pp. 94-103
33. Eva Johnson, 'Alison', in Cathie Dunsford and Susan Hawthorne (eds), The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand, New Women's Press, Auckland, 1990, pp. 138-44
34. Vicinus, 'Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts', pp. 57-8