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 the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards, and was a 1991 finalist for the Gay and Lesbian Book Award from the American Library Association. [1]
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]