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The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 is a nonfiction book by women's studies professor Bonnie Zimmerman. It was published by Beacon Press in 1990. The book received the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction at at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards, and was a 1991 finalist for the Gay and Lesbian Book Award from the American Library Association.[1]

Reviews

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Academic journals reviewing The Safe Sea of Women include American Literary History,[2] American Literature,[3] College Literature,[4] Contemporary Literature,[5] Feminist Review,[6] Signs,[7] Women's Review of Books[8], and Women's Studies Quarterly.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Gay and Lesbian Book Award". ALA. Retrieved August 28, 2024.
  2. ^ Doan, Laura (Autumn 1994). "What's In and Out, Out There? Disciplining the Lesbian". American Literary History. 6 (3): 572–582. JSTOR 489828.
  3. ^ Stenson, Linnea A. (June 1991). "[Review]". American Literature. 63 (2): 361–362. doi:10.2307/2927195.
  4. ^ Allen, Carolyn (October 1991). "Review of The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989". College Literature. 18 (3): 146–148. JSTOR 25111928.
  5. ^ Lamos, Colleen (Summer 1993). "Charting the Waters of Lesbian Literature". Contemporary Literature. 34 (2): 304–312. doi:10.2307/1208553.
  6. ^ Munt, Sally (Spring 1992). "[Review]". Feminist Review (40): 94–99. doi:10.2307/1395280.
  7. ^ Gaard, Greta (Summer 1993). "[Review]". Signs. 18 (4): 980–983. JSTOR 3174920.
  8. ^ Clausen, Jan (November 1990). "A Girl in Every Port?". Women's Review of Books. 8 (2): 7–8. doi:10.2307/4020864.
  9. ^ Porter, Nancy (Fall–Winter 1991). "[Review]". Women's Studies Quarterly. 19 (3/4): 180–185. JSTOR 40003313.


  • Abraham, Julie (December 3, 1990). "Criticism Is Not a Luxury". The Nation. pp. 711–712. "the narrowest possible understanding of what lesbians might do in books"
  • Allen, Carolyn (October 1991). "Review of The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989". College Literature. 18 (3): 146–148. JSTOR 25111928.
  • Clausen, Jan (November 1990). "A Girl in Every Port?". Women's Review of Books. 8 (2): 7–8. doi:10.2307/4020864. "Overall, the approach is diligent, intelligent and common-sensical." "My two major criticisms of Zimmerman's approach {are}, first of all, {that} her emphasis on relating a vast number of works to a few common themes tends to flatten and simplify the individual narratives. ... Her 'collective voice' approach requires equal attention to the banal and the wonderful. ... Second, the definition of lesbian fiction is curiously narrowing, and if anything discourages attention to more astringent, less conventional work."
  • Doan, Laura (Autumn 1994). "What's in and out, out There? Disciplining the Lesbian". American Literary History. 6 (3): 572–582. JSTOR 489828. "Scholars interested in twentieth-century American lesbian history, literature, and culture will welcome Faderman's sweeping social history Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America and Zimmerman's ambitious The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989. Their prodigious efforts to rediscover and recuperate lesbian history and voices and thus to construct a plausible history and literary tradition will prove immensely valuable for subsequent generations of critics. The sheer volume of reference material and information assembled ... makes these works indispensable sources for further study." (p. 576)
  • Gaard, Greta (Summer 1993). "[Review]". Signs. 18 (4): 980–983. JSTOR 3174920. "a timely retrospective of lesbian feminism as cultural and literary phenomenon" (p. 980)
  • Lamos, Colleen (Summer 1993). "Charting the Waters of Lesbian Literature". Contemporary Literature. 34 (2): 304–312. doi:10.2307/1208553. "is among the first to recognize lesbian literature as an object of study, a genre in its own" (p. 308)
  • Munt, Sally (Spring 1992). "[Review]". Feminist Review (40): 94–99. doi:10.2307/1395280. "Zimmerman avoids universalizing cliches by self-consciously positioning herself as a critic with a specific culture and history." (p. 95) "the most distinctly articulate and expressive deciphering of the field" (p. 96)
  • Porter, Nancy (Fall–Winter 1991). "[Review]". Women's Studies Quarterly. 19 (3/4): 180–185. JSTOR 40003313. "pioneering work" (p. )
  • Stenson, Linnea A. (June 1991). "[Review]". American Literature. 63 (2): 361–362. doi:10.2307/2927195. "This book is an invigorating and original contribution to literary studies in general and to feminist and lesbian studies in particular." (p. 362)

Category:1990 non-fiction books Category:1990s LGBTQ literature Category:English-language books Category:Lambda Literary Award-winning works Category:Lesbian feminist literature Category:Lesbian non-fiction books Category:LGBTQ literature in the United States

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