Sapphists and Sexologists; Histories of Sexualities

Volume 2

Edited By: Mary McAuliffe, Sonja Tiernan

£39.99

Sapphists and Sexologists contributes to the debates on lesbian lives and histories. This international collection features reflections by author Emma Donoghue, an exclusive conversation with Joan Nestle, and scholars questioning established sexual histories.

Sapphists and Sexologists: Histories of Sexualities Volume II, contributes to the ever evolving debates on lesbian lives and histories. This volume includes a mixture of…

Sapphists and Sexologists: Histories of Sexualities Volume II, contributes to the ever evolving debates on lesbian lives and histories. This volume includes a mixture of engaging essays from established and young scholars and opens with a succinct, incisive and often comical take on lesbian lives, relationships and cats, by internationally esteemed scholar Sally R. Munt. Unique essays include the personal reflections on writing historical fiction by the celebrated author Emma Donoghue and an exclusive conversational record from Joan Nestle on her life, loves and activism. The scope of this collection is truly international; a collaborative work of scholars from many different disciplines, universities and countries. The central theme of the book continues from the first volume Tribades, Tommies and Transgressives: Histories of Sexualities, in its questioning of established histories of sexualities, methodologies and theoretical practices.

Sonja Tiernan is a Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, School of Histories and Humanities, University of Dublin, Trinity College where she is currently writing a biography of Irish poet and playwright, Eva Gore-Booth. Sonja was awarded a Ph.D from University College Dublin for her study of Gore-Booth’s literature and she has recently completed a Studentship in Irish History Research in the National Library of Ireland.

Mary McAuliffe holds a Ph.D in Medieval History from the School of History, University of Dublin, Trinity College. She lectures on Women in Irish history on the Women’s Studies Programme, School of Social Justice, UCD. Her research interests include medieval Irish women and power, female representations and identities in Irish History, feminist and gender historiography and Irish feminist histories. She is secretary of the Women’s History Association of Ireland.