Sappho Bibliography from the Mulcahy Scholars Panel at the National Women's Studies Association, 1999

Scholarship Consulted on the Greek Literature:

Willis Barnstone, Greek Lyric Poetry (Bloomington, IN 1967)

Sue Blundell and Margaret Williamson (ed), The Sacredand the Feminine in Ancient Greece (NY l998)

Anne Burnett, Three Archaic Poets: Archilochus, Alcaeus, and Sappho (Cambridge, MA 1983)

David Campbell, Greek Lyric, Volume1 (Loeb) (Cambridge, MA 1982-1993)

E. Fantham, Helene Foley, N. Kampen, S. Pomeroy, H. A. Shapiro, (N.Y. 1994) Women in the Classical World

Page du Bois, Sappho is Burning (Chicago 1995)

Helene Foley (ed), Reflections of Womenin Antiquity (NY 1981)

Ellen Greene (ed), Reading Sappho: ContemporaryApproaches  (Berkeley, CA 1996) :

• G. Lanata, "Sappho’s Amatory Language"
• M. Lefkowitz, "Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho"
• G. Nagy, "Phaethon, Sappho’s Phaon, and the White rock of Leukas: ‘Reading the Symbols of Greek Lyric’"
• C. Segal, "Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry"
• P duBois, "Sappho and Helen"
• J. Winkler, "Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho’s Lyrics"
• C. Calame, "Sappho’s Group: An Initiation into Womanhood"
• J. Hallett, "Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality"
• E. Stehle, "Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho"
• A. Lardinois, "Who Sang Sappho’s Songs?"
• M. Skinner, "Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or Why Is Sappho a Woman?"
• E. Stehle, "Sappho’s Gaze: Fantasies of a Goddess and Young Man"
• A. Carson, "The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho 1"
• E. Greene, "Apostrophe and Women’s Erotics in the Poetry of Sappho"
• M. Williamson, "Sappho and the Other Woman"

Alexander Mourelatos, The Route ofParmenides (New Haven 1970)

Gregory Nagy, The Best of theAchaians (Baltimore l979)

Denys Page, Sappho and Alcaeus: An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Lesbian Poetry (Oxford 1979)

John Peradotto and J.P. Sullivan (ed), Women inthe Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers (Albany, NY 1984)

Nancy Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin (ed), Feminist Theoryandthe Classics (NY 1993)

Jane Snyder, Lesbian Desire in theLyrics of Sappho (NY 1997)

Jane Snyder, The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome (Carbondale, IL 1989)

Margaret Williamson, Sappho’s ImmortalDaughters (Cambridge, MA 1995)

Lyn Hatherly Wilson, Sappho’s Sweet BitterSongs: Configurations of Female and Male inAncient Greek Lyric (NY 1996)
 
 

Scholarship Consulted for Women's Studies:

M. F. Belenky, B. M. Clinchy, N. R. Goldberger, and J. M. Tarule, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind (New York 1986)

Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter (Routledge 1990)

Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (Berkeley, CA 1978)

Carole Gilligan, In a Different voice. Psychological Theory and Women's Development (Cambridge, MA 1982)

bell hooks, Feminst Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston 1984)

Hunger College Women's Studies Collective, Women's Realities, Women's Choices (New York 1995)

Nell Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (Berkeley, CA 1984)

Deborah Tannen, Gender and Discourse (New York 1994)

R. Unger and M. Crawford, Women and Gender: A Feminist Psychology (New York 1996)