BOOKS
Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1992.
Crossword Puzzles for Women: 60 Never-Before- Published Puzzles. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1995.
Flinging Wide the Eyed Universe: Poems. Athol, MA: Haley’s, 1998.
Speaking Freely: unlearning the lies of the fathers’ tongues. New York: Pergamon Press, 1990.
What’s in a Name: The Politics of Naming. Chicago: Northeastern Illinois University, 1974.
WITH SUSAN J. WOLFE [ROBBINS]
Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell
Publishers, 1993.
BOOKS EDITED
Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1994.
WITH MORGAN GREY
Found Goddesses: Asphalta to Viscera. Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers, 1988.
WITH SARAH LUCIA HOAGLAND
For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology. London: Onlywomen Press, 1988.
Sinister Wisdom 15. A special issue on violence against women, 1981.
WITH SUSAN J. WOLFE ROBBINS
Lesbian Culture: an anthology: The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1993.
The Coming Out Stories. Foreword by Adrienne Rich. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980.
The Original Coming Out Stories. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press,1989.
WITH SARAH VALENTINE
Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts From Around the World. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1990.
International Feminist Fiction. Introduction by Valerie Miner. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1992.
WITH BELLA AKHMADULINA AND ANNA ADREEVNA AKHMATOVA
Three Russian Women Poets: Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, Bella Akhmadulina. Julia Penelope with Bella Akhmadulina and Anna Andreevna Akhmatova. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1995.
ARTICLES
[Review of] “‘Concrete’ Poetry from East and West Germany: The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38 (Spring 1980): 333-36.
“A Cursory and Precursory History of Language, and the Telling of It”
“Fact and Interpretation: Reflections in a Golden Eye.” Prairie Schooner 51 (Fall 1977): 312-13.
“Heteropatriarchal Semantics: ‘Just Two Kinds of People in the World.’” Lesbian Ethics 2
(Fall 1986): 58-80.
“Homosexual Slang.” American Speech 45 (Spring-Summer 1970): 45-59.
“Let the Silence Be Broken.” Prairie Schooner 52 (Fall 1978): 298-99.
“The Mystery of Lesbians.” Gossip #1 (1986): 9-45.
“The Mystery of Lesbians: III” http://www.feminist-reprise.org/docs/penelope3-1.htm. from Lesbian Ethics 1 (1985) [no page].
“Sexist Grammar.” College English 39 (1978): 800-11.
“Sexist Slang and the Gay Community.” Occasional Papers in Women’s Studies (1979) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
“Toward a Feminist Aesthetic.” Chrysalis 6 [no date] 57-71.
“When We Say ‘Out of the Closets!’” College English (November 1974): 385-91
WITH CYNTHIA MCGOWAN
“Woman and Wife: Social and semantic shifts in English” Paper in Linguistics 12 (1979): 491-502.
WITH SUSAN J. WOLFE [ROBBINS]
“Forced inference: Uses and abuses of the passive.” Paper in Linguistics 10 (1977): 299-311.
“Lesbian Humor.” Women: A Journal of Liberation 5 (1977): 26-29.
“Linguistic problems with patriarchal reconstructions of Indo-European culture: A little more than kin, a little less than kind.” Women’s Studies International Quarterly 3 (1980): 227-37.
“Sexist Slang and the Gay Community: Are You One Too?” Occasional Papers in Women’s Studies (1979) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES
“Chomsky’s ‘Ideal’ Native Speaker:Sexism in Synchronic Linguistics.” Paper presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, New York, New York, December 27-30, 1978. ERIC database. OCLC number: 425829838. Accession number: ED179078.
“Language and Power: English as a Patriarchal Language.” Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 5-7, 1979. ERIC database. OCLC number: 425921127. Accession number: ED172252.
“Sexist Slang and the Gay Community: Are You One Too?” with Susan Robbins. Paper presented at the Modern Language Association, December 1976 [Reprinted as Michigan Occasional Paper No. XIV].
“The Sexist Tradition: Words and Meaning.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, New York, New York, November 24-26, 1977. ERIC database. OCLC number: 426994762. Accession number: ED 162303.
“Target Structure and Rule Conspiracies: Syntactic Exploitation” paper presented at the Theory of Rhetoric Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 5-6 1978. ERIC database. OCLC number: 425377053. Accession number: ED157392.
“Teaching Lesbian Novels: From Proposal to Reality.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, Kansas City, Missouri, November 23-25, 1978. ERIC database. OCLC number: 425943743. Accession number: ED168012.
DISSERTATION
“The problem of unity in poetry: a linguistic approach;" [abstract] Thesis/dissertation. Austin: The University of Texas, 1971.
ARTICLES IN BOOKS
“Lesbian Separatism: The Linguistic and Social Sources of Separatist Politics.” In The Gay Academic, edited by Louie Crew, 121-31. Palm Springs, CA: ETC Publications, 1978.
“Paradigmatic Women: the Prostitute.” In Papers in Language Variation, edited by D. L. Shores and C. P. Hine, 303-21. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1977.
“Passing Lesbians: The High Cost of Femininity.” In An Intimacy of Equals: Lesbian Feminist Ethics,edited by Lilian Mohin, 118-52. London: Onlywomen Press, 1996.
WITH SUSAN J. WOLFE ROBBINS
“Consciousness as Style; Style as Aesthetic.” In Language, Gender, and Society, edited by Barrie Thorne, Cheri Kramarae, and Nancy Henley, 125-39. Rowley, MA: Newburg, 1983.
“Crooked and Straight in Academia.” In Pulling Our Own Strings, edited by Gloria Kaufman and Mary Kay Blakely, 119. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
“Mother Wit: Tongue in Cheek.” In Lavender Culture, edited by Karla Jay and Allen Young. 299-307. New York: Jove Publications (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich), 1978.
BOOK REVIEW
[No title] Journal of Homosexuality. 3 (1977): 91-94.
DVD
Behind Closed Doors: the dark legacy of the Johns Committee by Allyson Beutke and Scott Litvack Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Department of Journalism, Documentary Institute, 2000. [Includes interviews with Merril Mushroom and Julia Penelope.]
Summary: The Legislative Investigation Committee probed unpopular groups in Florida during the 1950’s and ‘60s. Also known as the Johns Committee, investigators questioned civil rights activists, suspected Communists and homosexuals. Includes live interviews with Art Copleston, Merril Mushroom, and Julia Penelope; and a narrative about Sigmund Diettrich (who is now deceased) by former colleagues.” www.worldcat/org/title/behind-closed-doors/oclc/59758907&referer=brief_r...
ONLINE VIDEO
“Julia Penelope from Lesbiana – A Parallel Revolution” from Myriam Fougere http://vimeo.com/42673101.
ARCHIVES
Julia Penelope's papers are held by Duke University. For more information: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/penelope/
OBITUARIES
For obituaries and remembrances of Julia Penelope, go here: http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/APParticle.php?AID=41298&i=29&s=Food
Bibliography compiled by Joanna Cattonar.