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Reflections on a name: we're here: gay and lesbian presence in art and art history - We're Here: Gay and Lesbian Presence in Art and Art History
Art Journal, Winter, 1996 by Flavia Rando
5. Monique Wittig, "The Straight Mind," in The Straight Mind and Other Essays (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), 25.
6. Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," in Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986).
7. Elizabeth Grosz, Space, time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (New York: Routledge, 1995), 211.
8. Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference," in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1984), 117.
9. See Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
10. See Wittig, "The Straight Mind" and "On the Social Contract," in The Straight Mind, 33-45.
11. Most recently, see Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace's Women Artists and Writers: Modernist (Im)positionings (New York: Routledge, 1994).
12. See especially James Saslow's recent identification of lesbian presence, his discovery of Rosa Bonheur's self-portrait at the center of Horse Fair, in his "Disagreeably Hidden: Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair," in Expanding the Discourse: Feminism and Art History, eds. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (New York: IconEditions, 1992), 187-206.
13. As I write this, the August 17, 1996, New York Times reports on page 7: "Jury acquits an Air Force major accused of being a lesbian."
14. Terry Castle, "The Diaries of Anne Lister," in The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), 92-107.
15. See Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987).
FLAVIA RANDO teaches in the Women's Studies Program at Rutgers University and is completing her doctorate in the Art History Department of Rutgers.
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