Bonnie J. Morris | |
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| Born | May 14, 1961 |
| Known for | Research on the feminist movement, women's music, lesbian erasure, and women in Chabad Judaism |
| Awards | Lambda Literary Award (finalist) Over the Rainbow Book List (American Library Association) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Binghamton University (PhD) |
| Alma mater | Binghamton University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Women's studies |
| Institutions | Georgetown University George Washington University University of California,Berkeley |
| Notable works | Eden Built By Eves:The Culture of Women's Music Festivals Girl Reel Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor The Disappearing L:Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture |
Bonnie J. Morris (born May 14,1961;Los Angeles,California) [1] is an American scholar of women's studies. She completed a PhD in women's history at Binghamton University in 1989 and has taught at various universities including Georgetown University,George Washington University,and University of California,Berkeley. [1] [2]
Morris has published research on various subjects,including the feminist movement,women in Chabad Judaism,the history of women's music,and lesbian erasure. In 2017,her archival collection of the women's music movement was exhibited at the Library of Congress,where Morris also presented the lecture "The Sounds of Feminist Revolution". [3] [4] She is a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (Eden Built By Eves:The Culture of Women's Music Festivals,Girl Reel,Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor), [5] [6] [7] and winner of two national first-prize chapbooks (The Schoolgirl's Atlas,Sixes and Sevens). [8] [9] In 2018,The Disappearing L:Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture was named an Over the Rainbow nonfiction selection by the American Library Association. [10]
Reading this book is like going to a far place and finding yourself at home.
Morris' work invites further use of contemporary feminist theory as an interpretive tool. I appreciate the respect with which she treated this complicated community, and the respect her work inspires.
It's something of a hodge-podge, but little has been written about this phenomenon, making the book a welcome additional to gay and lesbian collections.
...provides both historical documentation and a counterargument to prevailing understandings of LGBT experience—all in an engaging, easy-to-read style aimed at undergraduates.
Morris weaves an artful quilt of scholarly research, primary source material, and personal anecdotes in an effort to preserve the history of quickly vanishing, uniquely lesbian-identified spaces.
Essential for students of women's rights and popular political movements in the modern era and an inspiration for future actions.
Although the writing swings awkwardly into a preachy and self-congratulatory tone in the latter half of the book, the story of Morris's early girlhood and the glimmerings of her intellectual coming-of-age are most plainly evocative....
Yet this injection of emotionalism in the last few selections ... weakens the overall effect ... Perhaps they seem undermining only because the rest of the book is so intellectually powerful
...displays an often sophisticated, wry wit, an awareness of the larger world beyond a child's/young person's [sometimes] solipsistic universe, and handles with quiet deftness and confidence issues of ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, and gender difference (and sometimes class difference as well), without ever becoming didactic.
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