COP: Creating a Question

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader from the college library. I was browsing looking through for possible essay ideas. Two essays in particular first stood out:

"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience" by Adrienne Rich

(Rich, Adrienne Cecile. 'Compulsory Heterosexuality And Lesbian Existence (1980)'. Journal of Women's History 15.3 (2003): 11-48. Web.)

and

"Is there a History of Sexuality" by David M. Halperin

(Halperin, David M. 'Is There A History Of Sexuality?'. History and Theory 28.3 (1989): 257. Web.)

This got me thinking about perhaps doing about historical queer women, it's a topic that really interests me, and it's largely undocumented. It's also in line with what I studied last year with heteronormativity, since heteronormativity is the reason why the history of queer women is so undocumented. However I know the just saying the history of queer women is very broad for the length of my essay (something I learnt from last year), so I think I'd like to cycle it down to what I find most interesting and least documented, ancient or classical queer women.

Leeds Uni

I went to Leeds University Library to get more potential books, as I wasn't able to find what I wanted in the LCA library. It was intimidating to be in such a massive library but I was able to download two PDFs:

"Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction" by Linda Garber 

(Linda Garber (2015) Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction, Journal of Lesbian Studies, 19:1, 129-149, DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2015.974381)

and 

"Teaching "Straight" Gay and Lesbian History" by Nancy C. Unger

(Unger, N. C. 'Teaching "Straight" Gay And Lesbian History'. Journal of American History 93.4 (2007): 1192-1199. Web.)

I've yet to read these articles, but when I do I will probably make a post on my blog, copying and analysing some quotes I find particularly intreating and relevant. 

Books I found were:

• "Sappho & Alcaeus: An Introduction to the study of ancient Lesbian Poetry" by Sir Denys Lionel Page- (I didn't think this was relevant in the end, maybe if I feel the need I'll come back to it but for now I thought I'd leave it)
• "Equal Partners in Ancient Times" by Bryan H Wildenthal ( A journal article I couldn't find, I will have to see if I can find this online somewhere, so I can see if it'll be good for my research or not)
• "Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past" by Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey, jr. (Again one I may come back to)
• "Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World" by Nancy Rabinowitz (I loved this book! However I really couldn't take anything out of the library, I may be forced to buy this book just to read it all. Really relevant essays in here, very thought provoking.)

The one thing I am worried about it linking my topic to some of the suggested texts, I will have to read into those also. Off the op of my head I vaguely think the Death of the Author text will fit in, but I'll have to read my current materials and re look at the Death of the Author text before I can say for sure.