Cirrus@Austlit

'Queer women’s history is often relegated to sidebars and footnotes, ephemeral community publications, or academic texts that are prohibitively expensive if you can’t borrow a kind friend’s university library card. That’s not due to a lack of interest or scholarship: the frequency of lesbian historical narratives in fiction, film and television suggests there is audience appetite for stories of women loving women, and often just a little digging will uncover plenty of gold. But it’s nice to have someone else do the digging for you. Here, Danielle Scrimshaw and Ultimo Press have successfully identified a gap in the market for a popular nonfiction treatment of lesbian and bisexual women’s history in Australia that gathers a dozen narratives in the one volume.' (Introduction)