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]
Works
editScholarly
edit- 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
edit- 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.
Miscellaneous
edit- Soundwaves of Feminism: The Women's Music Movement (Library of Congress, 2017)[20]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Contributor: Bonnie Morris". HuffPost. 2017.
- ^ "Bonnie Morris". Women Also Know History. 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ Crockett, Traci (March 23, 2017). "Alumna's Feminist Collection on Display at Library of Congress". American University. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ Brown, Nicholas A. (March 6, 2017). "This Week: Collecting, Women's Day & Jazz Legends". Library of Congress. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (July 15, 2000). "12th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (July 9, 2001). "13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ Valenzuela, Tony (May 10, 2010). "22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "The National Book Foundation held the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 14 at Cipriani in New York". Authors Guild. December 21, 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Bonnie J. Morris wins BLOOM Chapbook Prize". Authors Guild. May 12, 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "2018 Nonfiction Titles". Over the Rainbow Books. American Library Association. 2018. Archived from the original on June 24, 2019.
- ^ Jones, Robert A. (October 12, 1997). "Coming Home to the Faraway '50s". Los Angeles Times.
Reading this book is like going to a far place and finding yourself at home.
- ^ Henry, Jeanne (2002). "Lubavitcher Women in America". AJS Review. 26 (2): 403–404. doi:10.1017/S0364009402460114 (inactive 1 November 2024). ISSN 0364-0094. S2CID 162284187. ProQuest 195848578.
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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)(via ProQuest) - ^ 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.
(via ProQuest) - ^ 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.
(via ProQuest) - ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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
(via ProQuest) - ^ "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.
- ^ "Soundwaves of Feminism: The Women's Music Movement". Library of Congress. 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2019. [Video]
External links
edit- Official website
- Bonnie J. Morris at C-SPAN
- Lecturer: Bonnie Morris Archived 2019-10-16 at the Wayback Machine, Semester at Sea, Institute for Shipboard Education
- Bonnie J. Morris at National Women's History Museum