Julie R Enszer
Biographic Data
| ID | 102632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie R Enszer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie R |
| FAMILY NAME | Enszer |
| SIGNATURE | ENSZER J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sarah Isom Center, University of Mississippi, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6662-1317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Remembering and Celebrating the Life and Work of Minnie Bruce Pratt
This introduction biographically contextualizes the life and work of Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946-2023) while briefly summarizing the contributions to the special issue, "The Work and Legacy of Minnie Bruce Pratt." Pratt's personal life, social activism, writing career, teaching, and mentorship are discussed in conversation with prior scholarship about Pratt. The five scholarly articles, two roundtables, one interview, and two personal essays that ma…
New Biographical Myth Making
Sometimes we create archives, sometimes we create dialogues
Sinister Wisdom , founded amid a blooming of lesbian-feminist print culture in 1976, is the longest-running lesbian-feminist literary and art journal. A thriving US-based nonprofit organisation, the journal publishes four issues each year, including a series of Sapphic Classics that return classic lesbian-feminist texts to print. Presently, a core element of Sinister Wisdom 's work is generational transfer, ensuring the journal's continued vitali…
Binding Transnational Lesbian‐Feminist Print Constellations
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, Connexion…
Miriam Bat Murray, and
Miriam Bat Murray, and: Tirza Acknowledges G!D’s Pettiness, and: Miriam from The Diaspora of Alaska Julie R. Enszer (bio) Before my father diedhe woke every morningat 6 a.m. drank coffeedressed and walked outthe door at 6:40 a.m.He walked a mile on the streets ofHoboken to the shulwhere he prayedin the morning minyan When he failed to arriveone Wednesday the rabbiwent to his houseknocked on the doorand when he did not answerthe rabbi peered into …
Lesbian vitality
Opening with a reflection on lesbian invisibility, "Lesbian Vitality: A Provocation" challenges the idea of lesbian erasure, particularly when it is used in relationship to transgender people. Arguing for a multiplicity of lesbian identities and spaces for capacious lesbian formations, the author draws from the history of the periodical Sinister Wisdom and her experiences editing it to call for lesbian vitality as an alternative to erasure and as…
How Places Make Us
Journal Article How Places Make Us: Novel LGB Identities in Four Small Cities Get access How Places Make Us: Novel LGB Identities in Four Small Cities Japonica Brown-Saracino University of Chicago Press, 2018, 326 pages, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo24945929.html Julie R Enszer Julie R Enszer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 98, Issue 2, December 2019, Pages 1–2…
Inter- and Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice in Triple Jeopardy and Conditions
Historical narratives about women’s liberation movements often emphasize linearity with a shifting focus from revolutionary imaginaries to liberal reforms, from white feminist activism to women of
“What Made Us Think They’d Pay Us for Making a Revolution?”
This chapter analyzes the case study of a feminist book distribution company Women in Distribution (WinD). WinD was established in late 1974 by three women (Helaine Harris, Cynthia Gair, and Lee Schwing), each with experience marketing and distributing lesbian-feminist materials. The story of WinD mirrors the growth in feminist publishing during the late 1970s and reinforces the power and influence of poetry, in particular, and of feminist writin…
Lesbian books are no longer just for lesbians
Since 1996, two significant film adaptations of lesbian novels remediated the work of lesbian-feminism for broader audiences. Anjelica Huston directed the adaptation of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina for Showtime, a cable station, in 1996; Lee Daniels directed Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire as a feature film in 2009. Lesbian print culture nurtured and supported Allison’s and Sapphire’s early careers; both published work …
How to stop choking to death”
In contemporary feminist discourses, lesbian separatism is often mocked. Whether blamed as a central reason for feminism's alleged failure or seen as an unrealistic, utopian vision, lesbian separatism is a maligned social and cultural formation. This article traces the intellectual roots of lesbian feminism from the early 1970s in The Furies and Radicalesbians through the work of Julia Penelope and Sarah Lucia Hoagland in the 1980s and 1990s, the…
She Who Shouts Gets Heard
720 Feminist Studies 42, no. 3. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Julie R. Enszer “She Who Shouts Gets Heard!”: Counting and Accounting for Women Writers in Literary Grants and Norton Anthologies In 1979, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM), a New York-based nonprofit that supported literary magazines through technical assistance and grant-making, announced a new program: CCLM editor fellowships.1 Editor fellowships came with a $…
Introduction
Where Would I Be Without You, the first and only poetry recording from Olivia Records, offers a glimpse into the powerful friendship and artistic collaboration between poets Pat Parker and Judy Grahn. Grahn and Parker met in Oakland, California in 1970, beginning an artistic collaboration and a powerful friendship that endured through Parker's death in 1989. Grahn's and Parker's work spread the good news of poetry; they were integral to how we le…
The Black and White of It”
In the 1970s and 1980s, lesbian-feminist writing and publishing expressed new theoretical insights about race and envisioned new, intersectional identities. Using texts published and edited by Grier in The Ladder and subsequent Ladder anthologies published by Diana Press, archival documents from Diana Press, and the Grier-Naiad Press papers, this article explores Grier's editorial practices and compares Grier's work to other lesbian-feminist edit…
We Couldn't Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print
Agatha Beins, Julie R. Enszer, “We Couldn't Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print:Ain't I a Woman? and the Iowa City Women's Press, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2013), pp. 186-221
Whatever Happens, This Is
“Whatever Happens, This Is”:Lesbians Engaging Marriage Julie R. Enszer (bio) In February 2004, when Mayor Gavin Newsom married lesbian and gay couples in San Francisco, I was swept up in the excitement. I told my beloved, “Let’ s cash in our miles, fly to San Francisco for the weekend, and get married.” She looked at me and said, “Are you crazy? This is a legal quagmire. I’m not getting gay married until we can be gay divorced.” Her dispassionate…
Many Have Loved You with Lips and Fingers
Book Review| October 01 2011 “Many Have Loved You with Lips and Fingers” Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between WomenRupp, Leila J. New York: New York University Press, 2009. xii + 302 pp. Julie R. Enszer Julie R. Enszer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 677–680. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1302469 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review…
Lesbian vitality
Opening with a reflection on lesbian invisibility, "Lesbian Vitality: A Provocation" challenges the idea of lesbian erasure, particularly when it is used in relationship to transgender people. Arguing for a multiplicity of lesbian identities and spaces for capacious lesbian formations, the author draws from the history of the periodical Sinister Wisdom and her experiences editing it to call for lesbian vitality as an alternative to erasure and as…
How to stop choking to death”
In contemporary feminist discourses, lesbian separatism is often mocked. Whether blamed as a central reason for feminism's alleged failure or seen as an unrealistic, utopian vision, lesbian separatism is a maligned social and cultural formation. This article traces the intellectual roots of lesbian feminism from the early 1970s in The Furies and Radicalesbians through the work of Julia Penelope and Sarah Lucia Hoagland in the 1980s and 1990s, the…
We Couldn't Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print
Agatha Beins, Julie R. Enszer, “We Couldn't Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print:Ain't I a Woman? and the Iowa City Women's Press, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2013), pp. 186-221
Inter- and Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice in Triple Jeopardy and Conditions
Historical narratives about women’s liberation movements often emphasize linearity with a shifting focus from revolutionary imaginaries to liberal reforms, from white feminist activism to women of
Introduction
Where Would I Be Without You, the first and only poetry recording from Olivia Records, offers a glimpse into the powerful friendship and artistic collaboration between poets Pat Parker and Judy Grahn. Grahn and Parker met in Oakland, California in 1970, beginning an artistic collaboration and a powerful friendship that endured through Parker's death in 1989. Grahn's and Parker's work spread the good news of poetry; they were integral to how we le…
Many Have Loved You with Lips and Fingers
Book Review| October 01 2011 “Many Have Loved You with Lips and Fingers” Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between WomenRupp, Leila J. New York: New York University Press, 2009. xii + 302 pp. Julie R. Enszer Julie R. Enszer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 677–680. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1302469 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review…
We Couldn't Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print
Agatha Beins, Julie R. Enszer, “We Couldn't Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print:Ain't I a Woman? and the Iowa City Women's Press, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2013), pp. 186-221
Whatever Happens, This Is
“Whatever Happens, This Is”:Lesbians Engaging Marriage Julie R. Enszer (bio) In February 2004, when Mayor Gavin Newsom married lesbian and gay couples in San Francisco, I was swept up in the excitement. I told my beloved, “Let’ s cash in our miles, fly to San Francisco for the weekend, and get married.” She looked at me and said, “Are you crazy? This is a legal quagmire. I’m not getting gay married until we can be gay divorced.” Her dispassionate…
The Black and White of It”
In the 1970s and 1980s, lesbian-feminist writing and publishing expressed new theoretical insights about race and envisioned new, intersectional identities. Using texts published and edited by Grier in The Ladder and subsequent Ladder anthologies published by Diana Press, archival documents from Diana Press, and the Grier-Naiad Press papers, this article explores Grier's editorial practices and compares Grier's work to other lesbian-feminist edit…
Introduction
Where Would I Be Without You, the first and only poetry recording from Olivia Records, offers a glimpse into the powerful friendship and artistic collaboration between poets Pat Parker and Judy Grahn. Grahn and Parker met in Oakland, California in 1970, beginning an artistic collaboration and a powerful friendship that endured through Parker's death in 1989. Grahn's and Parker's work spread the good news of poetry; they were integral to how we le…
How to stop choking to death”
In contemporary feminist discourses, lesbian separatism is often mocked. Whether blamed as a central reason for feminism's alleged failure or seen as an unrealistic, utopian vision, lesbian separatism is a maligned social and cultural formation. This article traces the intellectual roots of lesbian feminism from the early 1970s in The Furies and Radicalesbians through the work of Julia Penelope and Sarah Lucia Hoagland in the 1980s and 1990s, the…
She Who Shouts Gets Heard
720 Feminist Studies 42, no. 3. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Julie R. Enszer “She Who Shouts Gets Heard!”: Counting and Accounting for Women Writers in Literary Grants and Norton Anthologies In 1979, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM), a New York-based nonprofit that supported literary magazines through technical assistance and grant-making, announced a new program: CCLM editor fellowships.1 Editor fellowships came with a $…
“What Made Us Think They’d Pay Us for Making a Revolution?”
This chapter analyzes the case study of a feminist book distribution company Women in Distribution (WinD). WinD was established in late 1974 by three women (Helaine Harris, Cynthia Gair, and Lee Schwing), each with experience marketing and distributing lesbian-feminist materials. The story of WinD mirrors the growth in feminist publishing during the late 1970s and reinforces the power and influence of poetry, in particular, and of feminist writin…
Lesbian books are no longer just for lesbians
Since 1996, two significant film adaptations of lesbian novels remediated the work of lesbian-feminism for broader audiences. Anjelica Huston directed the adaptation of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina for Showtime, a cable station, in 1996; Lee Daniels directed Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire as a feature film in 2009. Lesbian print culture nurtured and supported Allison’s and Sapphire’s early careers; both published work …
Inter- and Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice in Triple Jeopardy and Conditions
Historical narratives about women’s liberation movements often emphasize linearity with a shifting focus from revolutionary imaginaries to liberal reforms, from white feminist activism to women of
How Places Make Us
Journal Article How Places Make Us: Novel LGB Identities in Four Small Cities Get access How Places Make Us: Novel LGB Identities in Four Small Cities Japonica Brown-Saracino University of Chicago Press, 2018, 326 pages, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo24945929.html Julie R Enszer Julie R Enszer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 98, Issue 2, December 2019, Pages 1–2…
Lesbian vitality
Opening with a reflection on lesbian invisibility, "Lesbian Vitality: A Provocation" challenges the idea of lesbian erasure, particularly when it is used in relationship to transgender people. Arguing for a multiplicity of lesbian identities and spaces for capacious lesbian formations, the author draws from the history of the periodical Sinister Wisdom and her experiences editing it to call for lesbian vitality as an alternative to erasure and as…
Binding Transnational Lesbian‐Feminist Print Constellations
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, Connexion…
Miriam Bat Murray, and
Miriam Bat Murray, and: Tirza Acknowledges G!D’s Pettiness, and: Miriam from The Diaspora of Alaska Julie R. Enszer (bio) Before my father diedhe woke every morningat 6 a.m. drank coffeedressed and walked outthe door at 6:40 a.m.He walked a mile on the streets ofHoboken to the shulwhere he prayedin the morning minyan When he failed to arriveone Wednesday the rabbiwent to his houseknocked on the doorand when he did not answerthe rabbi peered into …
Sometimes we create archives, sometimes we create dialogues
Sinister Wisdom , founded amid a blooming of lesbian-feminist print culture in 1976, is the longest-running lesbian-feminist literary and art journal. A thriving US-based nonprofit organisation, the journal publishes four issues each year, including a series of Sapphic Classics that return classic lesbian-feminist texts to print. Presently, a core element of Sinister Wisdom 's work is generational transfer, ensuring the journal's continued vitali…
Remembering and Celebrating the Life and Work of Minnie Bruce Pratt
This introduction biographically contextualizes the life and work of Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946-2023) while briefly summarizing the contributions to the special issue, "The Work and Legacy of Minnie Bruce Pratt." Pratt's personal life, social activism, writing career, teaching, and mentorship are discussed in conversation with prior scholarship about Pratt. The five scholarly articles, two roundtables, one interview, and two personal essays that ma…
New Biographical Myth Making
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Lesbian (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Feminism (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)