Bonnie J. Morris Explained

Bonnie J. Morris (born May 14, 1961; Los Angeles, California) 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Contributor: Bonnie Morris. HuffPost. 2017.
  2. Web site: Bonnie Morris. Women Also Know History. 2018. 16 October 2019.
  3. Web site: Crockett. Traci. Alumna's Feminist Collection on Display at Library of Congress. American University. March 23, 2017. 16 October 2019.
  4. Web site: Brown. Nicholas A.. This Week: Collecting, Women's Day & Jazz Legends. Library of Congress. March 6, 2017. 16 October 2019.
  5. Web site: Cerna. Antonio Gonzalez. 12th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation. July 15, 2000. 16 October 2019.
  6. Web site: Cerna. Antonio Gonzalez. 13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation. July 9, 2001. 16 October 2019.
  7. Web site: Valenzuela. Tony. 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation. May 10, 2010. 16 October 2019.
  8. Web site: The National Book Foundation held the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 14 at Cipriani in New York. Authors Guild. December 21, 2012. 16 October 2019.
  9. Web site: Bonnie J. Morris wins BLOOM Chapbook Prize. Authors Guild. May 12, 2015. 16 October 2019.
  10. News: Jones. Robert A.. Coming Home to the Faraway '50s. Los Angeles Times. October 12, 1997. Reading this book is like going to a far place and finding yourself at home..
  11. Henry. Jeanne. Lubavitcher Women in America. AJS Review. 2002. 26. 2. 403–404. 10.1017/S0364009402460114. 2024-07-10 . 162284187. 0364-0094. Morris' work invites further use of contemporary feminist theory as an interpretive tool. I appreciate the respect with which she treated this complicated community, and the respect her work inspires.. . (via ProQuest)
  12. Brewer. Rosellen. Eden Built by Eves. Library Journal. April 1999. 124. 6. 101. 0363-0277. 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.. . (via ProQuest)
  13. Ferentinos. Susan. The disappearing L. April 2017. 54. 8. 1254–1255. Choice. ...provides both historical documentation and a counterargument to prevailing understandings of LGBT experience—all in an engaging, easy-to-read style aimed at undergraduates.. . (via ProQuest)
  14. Catanese. Elizabeth. Whither Women's Spaces?. The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. 24. 2. March–April 2017. 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.. subscription.
  15. The Feminist Revolution. Kirkus Reviews. November 13, 2017. Essential for students of women’s rights and popular political movements in the modern era and an inspiration for future actions..
  16. 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.....
  17. Hartman. Melissa. Girl Reel. Lambda Book Report. July–August 2000. 23–24. 8–9. 12. 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. . (via ProQuest)
  18. Web site: Bonnie Morris & Hilary Zaid: Winners of 2014 BLOOM Chapbook Prizes. BLOOM Literary Journal. March 24, 2015. 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..
  19. Web site: Soundwaves of Feminism: The Women's Music Movement. Library of Congress. 2017. 16 October 2019. [Video]

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