Joanne E. Passet

Joanne Passet , Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard Foster.

In 1956, librarian Jeannette Foster Howard published Sex Variant Women in Literature, an exhaustive account of literary references to lesbianism, from the poetry of Sappho to pulp fiction of the 1950s. Amidst Cold War sexual repression, her ďż˝bible of lesbian literatureďż˝ became the first-ever historical study of homosexuals, bisexuals, and transvestites in literature. In this new biography, history professor Passet sheds light on Howard, a foremother of modern queer studies and a lesbian whose own fascinating life spanned the late 19th century to the rise of the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. (booksense)… (more)

Joanne Passet , Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard Foster.

In 1956, librarian Jeannette Foster Howard published Sex Variant Women in Literature, an exhaustive account of literary references to lesbianism, from the poetry of Sappho to pulp fiction of the 1950s. Amidst Cold War sexual repression, her “bible of lesbian literature” became the first-ever historical study of homosexuals, bisexuals, and transvestites in literature. In this new biography, history professor Passet sheds light on Howard, a foremother of modern queer studies and a lesbian whose own fascinating life spanned the late 19th century to the rise of the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. (booksense)… (more)