THE WHOLE NAKED TRUTH OF OUR LIVES: LESBIAN-FEMINIST PRINT CULTURE FROM 1969 THROUGH 1989

During the 1970s and the 1980s, lesbian-feminists created a vibrant lesbian print culture, participating in the creation, production, and distribution of books, chapbooks, journals, newspapers, and other printed materials. This extraordinary output of creative material provides a rich archive for new insights about the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM), gay liberation (the LGBT movement), and recent U.S. social history. In The Whole Naked Truth of Our Lives, I construct and analyze historical narratives of lesbian-feminist publishers in the United States between 1969 and 1989. Interdisciplinary in its conception, design, and execution, The Whole Naked Truth of Our Lives is the only sustained examination of lesbian print culture during the 1970s and 1980s; it extends the work of Simone Murray on feminist print culture in the United Kingdom as well as the work of literary scholars Kim Whitehead, Kate Adams, Trysh Travis, Bonnie Zimmerman, and Martha Vicinus, and historians Martin Meeker, Marcia Gallo, Rodger Streitmatter, Abe Peck, John McMillian, and Peter Richardson. From archival material, including correspondence, publishing ephemera such as flyers and catalogues, and meeting notes, oral history interviews, and published books, I assemble a history of lesbian-feminist publishing that challenges fundamental ideas about the WLM, gay liberation, and U.S. social history as well as remapping the contours of current historical and literary narratives. In the excitement of the WLM, multiple feminist practices expressed exuberant possibilities for a feminist revolution. Cultural feminism and lesbian separatism were vibrant expressions of the WLM; they were not antagonistic to radical feminism or liberal feminism but rather complementary and overlapping. Economic restructuring in the United States (e.g. globalization, decreasing governmental support for the arts, and neoliberalism) tempered visions for a lesbian-feminist revolution. Lesbian-feminist publishers experienced economic restructuring as it unfolded and actively discussed the political, economic, and theoretical implications. The strategies and responses of lesbian-feminist publishers demonstrate the effects of and resistances to these macro-economic forces. Examining the economics of book publishing explains how literary artists and other creative intellectuals support themselves in capitalist economies, illuminates broader intellectual and cultural currents, and suggests how broader economic trends in the United States interacted with cultural production

Barbara Grier’s Enumerative Bibliographies: Iterating Communal Lesbian Identities

Barbara Grier, best known for her publishing work with the Naiad Press, started her literary life in the pages of The Ladder, the magazine of the Daughters of Bilitis. Working initially under the tutelage of Jeanette Howard Foster, Grier cataloged and categorized work by and about lesbians during the repressive decades of the 1950s and 1960s. By tracing Grier’s work in three major bibliographic projects, the Lesbiana column in The Ladder, the Lesbian in Literature (published in three separate editions), and Lesbiana (a book Grier published from her columns), Grier’s bibliographic practices, enumerative and annotative, emerge as tools in the era before Judith Butler that distill lesbian identities and forge lesbian communities through iterative practices. An examination of Grier’s bibliographic work between 1957 and 1981 reveals how it functions as a form of identity making and communal imagining, anticipating Butler’s theories of bodies and beings in Gender Trouble (1990). Operating functionally as an outsider of multiple worlds, Grier’s work is a monumental achievement, synthesizing a rich lesbian literary tradition from the work of predecessors. Grier’s work also provided a vibrant foundation for future canon-making projects that define lesbian literature and assert lesbians as cultural citizens. (In the issue section Rethinking Catalogs and Archives

De Fidelis

DE FIDELIS is a collection of poems that examines domestic life and the ways that domestic life comes undone by the challenges of contemporary culture. The content of the poems is drawn from a wide range of personal experiences--a kind of travel in which the customs and ideology of "home" are explored and challenged, the home where domesticity is embedded with fidelity and the specter of infidelity, death, and the world that remains when the dead continue to engage with the living. What unites the poems are the close observations of relevant objects and memory

Binding Transnational Lesbian‑Feminist Print Constellations: Exploring Feminist Print Cultures and Its Transnational Travels

A series of publishing interventions by lesbian-feminists document the transnational aspirations of the U.S. women’s liberation movement in the 1970s, 80, and 90s. The argument about how lesbian‑feminist publishers contributed to transnational feminist attentions unfolds in three parts. First, I examine how feminists built international publishing networks in the 1980s and 1990s. Second, I examine how three lesbian-feminist periodicals, Connexions, Sinister Wisdom, and Ikon, demonstrated commitments to transnational publishing and reading practices. Third, a constellation of five transnational texts published by independent lesbian-feminist publishers reveal the literacies imagined by feminist publishers and how lesbian‑feminist publishers worked to reshape American feminist imaginaries to be more transnational. In a final section, I speculate about how focusing on lesbian‑feminist publishing in the past might illuminate contemporary studies of publishing and inspire new publishing activists.Une série d’interventions de lesbiennes féministes dans le domaine de l’édition documente les aspirations transnationales du mouvement de libération des femmes aux États-Unis dans les années 1970-1990. L’argumentaire se déroule en trois parties sur la façon dont les éditeurs lesbiens féministes ont contribué aux intérêts féministes transnationaux. Premièrement, j’examine comment les féministes ont construit des réseaux internationaux d’édition dans les années 1980 et 1990. Deuxièmement, j’examine comment trois périodiques lesbiens féministes, Connexions, Sinister Wisdom et Ikon, se sont engagés dans des pratiques transnationales d’édition et de lecture. Troisièmement, une constellation de cinq textes transnationaux publiés par des éditeurs lesbiens féministes indépendants révèle les littératies imaginées par les éditeurs féministes et la manière dont les éditeurs lesbiens féministes ont travaillé à remodeler les imaginaires féministes états-uniens pour les rendre plus transnationaux. Dans une dernière partie, j’émets des hypothèses sur la manière dont l’intérêt pour l’édition lesbienne-féministe du passé pourrait éclairer les études contemporaines sur l’édition et inspirer de nouvelles activistes de l’édition

Verified solution method for population epidemiology models with uncertainty

Epidemiological models can be used to study the impact of an infection within a population. These models often involve parameters that are not known with certainty. Using a method for verified solution of nonlinear dynamic models, we can bound the disease trajectories that are possible for given bounds on the uncertain parameters. The method is based on the use of an interval Taylor series to represent dependence on time and the use of Taylor models to represent dependence on uncertain parameters and/or initial conditions. The use of this method in epidemiology is demonstrated using the SIRS model, and other variations of Kermack-McKendrick models, including the case of time-dependent transmission