Baby, You're My Religion
Viewing 1950's Butch Femme Sexual Practice
The Butch Woman Inside James Dean

Publications and Articles

Articles Published

2012 Baby, You Are My Religion:Women, Gay Bars and Theology before Stonewall,(book) New York/London, UK: Equinox Press, forthcoming 2013 (editor, Lisa Isherwood: Queering Theology Series)

2010 “An Articulation of a Theology of the Body for Queer Theory" Chapter 11, Women and Christianity in the World, editors Karen Jo Torjesen, and Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Greenwood Praeger, 2010, pp. 225-246

2009 “The Butch Woman Inside James Dean,” Controversies in Contextual Theology: Trans/Formations, editors Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, SCM-Canterbury Press, 2009, pp.105-126 Buy It Now.

2007 “From The Big O Collection,” Viz Inter-Arts Event: A Trans-Genre Anthology, editor Roxanne Power Hamilton, Santa Cruz, CA; University Of CA, Santa Cruz, 2007, p. 162 Buy It Now.

2005 “Pandora’s Gauntlet - Curiosity Enough to Care and Hope Enough to Question,” Gay Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence, editors Donald L. Boisvert and Robert E. Goss, NY: Hayworth Press, 2005, pp. 141-149 Buy It Now.

2004 “The Necessity for Fiction in Resurrecting Queer Lineage: Sor Juana’s Second Dream,” The Sexual Theologian: Essays on Sex, God and Politics, editors Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, London/ New York: Continuum Press, 2004, pp. 16-25 Buy It Now.

2004 “A Theology of Corporeality Embodied in the Butch Femme Bar Culture of the 1950's and 1960’s," Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology, January 2004, FT 12.2, pp. 168-186, also part of Commemorative Anthology

2003 “The Butch Woman Inside James Dean” Sexualities, Vol. 6, No. ¾, August/November, 2003, pp. 443-458

2003 “Viewing 1950's Butch-Femme Sexual Practice as Possibly Practicing Religion/ Religious Practice,” Theology and Sexuality: The Journal of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality, Vol. 10.1 September 2003, pp. 40-57

Encyclopedia Entries

2008 “Nuns,” entry for Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, editor Jodi A. O’Brien, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008, pp. 614-615

2008 “Judith of the Bible,” biographical profile entry for Encyclopedia of Women in World History, editor Judith Tucker, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008

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