Sapphic Women before the 21st Century

The Emily Dickinson Journal is published by John's Hopkins University and is sponsored by the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS.) from 1992 through the present day. This journal showcases articles from scholars about Emily Dickinson and her works. It is an important journal to look through when thinking about the history of sapphic people with Emily Dickinson being a well known poet who is known to have had affairs with women and is often aligned with depictions of sapphic and lesbian identities. Her works and analysis of them are useful to someone looking to find more on sapphic identities, and sapphic literature before LGBTQ+ people were more widely accepted by society. Several articles in the journal detail her sapphic tendencies, history, and the modern impacts of her works.

A collection of articles on Lesbian identities and health issues and concerns published by Taylor and Francis that has been in publication from 03/01/1997 to the present. The Wyndham Robertson Library has access to the publication digitally through EBSCOhost LGBTQ+ Source. It can be used to get a further understanding of what we now know about Lesbian and Sapphic identities and it can add further context when looking at historical representations of Sapphic people. It is important to look at the further context outside of one depiction of historical lesbian identities and how they have changed over time.

The Journal of Homosexuality is a periodical that has been published starting in the fall of 1974 until the present day by Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis. It discusses issues regarding homosexuality as a whole. It goes beyond just sapphic and lesbian identities and it is a journal that has been around for several decades. It offers multiple perspectives on queer identities over time and can provide further context for researchers in regards to queer identities and therefore can inform the knowledge of sapphic identities.