Journal of Women's History articles

Recent articles from Journal of Women's History

Editor's note.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... As I write this, I have just finished my first year back in women's studies, after a sixteen-year hiatus spent full-time in a history department. It has been invigorating and challenging, and it has made me realize how profoundly women's studies has influenced women's history, and vice versa....

Women's history in the new millennium: Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence:" a retrospective.
September 22, 2003... Almost since she came to work for the Journal, managing editor Stephanie Gilmore has been lobbying for a retrospective on Adrienne Rich's classic article, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." I knew from my partner, Verta Taylor, who has for many years co-edited the women's...

Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence (1980).(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... Foreword I want to say a little about the way "Compulsory Heterosexuality" was originally conceived and the context in which we are now living. It was written in part to challenge the erasure of lesbian existence from so much of scholarly feminist literature, an erasure which I felt (and...

Wars and thinking.
September 22, 2003... "What is a lesbian? A lesbian is the rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion."--Radicalesbians, "The Woman-Identified Woman," 1970 "The realm of human sex, gender and procreation has been subjected to, and changed by, relentless social activity for...

Asian American history and racialized compulsory deviance.
September 22, 2003... I am deeply honored to participate in this retrospective on Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." Approximately fifteen years ago, I enrolled in an undergraduate course entitled "Women and Difference: Marginality, Art, and Politics." Co-taught by Adrienne Rich...