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]
Scholarly
- Morris, Bonnie J. (1997). The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey. ISBN 978-0897894944.[11]
- Morris, Bonnie J. (1998). Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era (1st ed.). Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0791437995.[12]
- Morris, Bonnie J. (1999). Eden Built By Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals (1st ed.). Los Angeles, California: Alyson Publications. ISBN 1-55583-477-9. LCCN 98054780.[13]
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2012). Women's History For Beginners. Danbury, Connecticut: For Beginners. ISBN 978-1934389607.
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2016). The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture (1st ed.). Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-6177-9. LCCN 2016011561.[14][15]
- Morris, Bonnie J.; Withers, D-M (2018). The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women's Liberation. Smithsonian Books. ISBN 978-1588346124.[16]
Other books
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2000). Girl Reel. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press. ISBN 978-1566890946.[17][18]
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2001). The Question of Sabotage: A Festival Fable. Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books. ISBN 978-0967775388.
- Morris, Bonnie J.; Casey, E. B. (2005). 52 Pickup. Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books. ISBN 978-1594930263.
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2009). Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253220622.
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2013). The Schoolgirl's Atlas. Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1622293636.
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2014). Sixes and Sevens.[19]
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2017). Sappho's Bar and Grill. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bywater Books. ISBN 978-1612940977.
- Morris, Bonnie J. (2018). Sappho's Overhead Projector. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bywater Books. ISBN 978-1612941394.
Brewer, Rosellen (April 1999). "Eden Built by Eves". Library Journal. 124 (6): 101. ISSN 0363-0277. ProQuest 196830514. 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.
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Ferentinos, Susan (April 2017). "The disappearing L". Choice. Vol. 54, no. 8. pp. 1254–1255. ProQuest 1882434931. ...provides both historical documentation and a counterargument to prevailing understandings of LGBT experience—all in an engaging, easy-to-read style aimed at undergraduates.
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Catanese, Elizabeth (March–April 2017). "Whither Women's Spaces?". The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. Vol. 24, no. 2. pp. 40–41. 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.
"Girl Reel". Publishers Weekly. January 3, 2000. 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....
Hartman, Melissa (July–August 2000). "Girl Reel". Lambda Book Report. Vol. 8–9, no. 12. pp. 23–24. ProQuest 236963184. 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
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"Bonnie Morris & Hilary Zaid: Winners of 2014 BLOOM Chapbook Prizes". BLOOM Literary Journal. March 24, 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2019. ...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.