TY - BOOK AU - Harker,Jaime TI - The lesbian South: southern feminists, the women in print movement, and the queer literary canon SN - 9781469643366 AV - PS153 .L473 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Lesbian authors KW - Southern States KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Lesbians KW - Social life and customs KW - Feminism and literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Southern, feminist, queer: the archive of southern lesbian feminism --; Creating a southern lesbian feminist culture: the women in print movement and the battle of the literary --; The radical South: politics and the lesbian feminist imaginary --; Queer sexuality and the lesbian feminist South --; Women's space, queer space: communes, landykes, and queer contact zones in the lesbian feminist South --; Lesfic: alternative publishing, activism, and queer women writers; 2; b N2 - "Much of the scholarship published on gay writers in the American South has focused on men, eliding the vibrant history of lesbian authorship and print culture. In The lesbian South, Jamie Harker explores the literature of lesbian-feminist writers, feminist print culture, presses, and bookstores in the post-1960s American South. Harker argues that lesbian presses and bookstores enabled the development of feminist reading and writing communities. These communities both challenged and nurtured lesbian writers, while also encouraging a feminist-inspired racial activism and individual autonomy"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1902492&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -