Bibliographic History of Sex Variant Women in Literature by Jeannette Howard Foster

Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. New York, NY: Vantage Press, 1956.

Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. London, UK: Muller, 1958.

Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1975.

Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1985.

Editor Note: The history of printing of Foster's book is interesting as it demonstrates some of the power of lesbian small presses and the interests of lesbians as a reading community. Foster published the book first in 1956 through Vantage Press, a vanity press based in New York. It was then reprinted by the feminist press in Baltimore, MD, Diana Press, in 1975. In 1985, Barbara Grier, the owner of Naiad Press with her partner, reissued the book. Naiad Press was a large publisher of lesbian fiction.

Joanne Passet has written an excellent biography of Jeannette Howard Foster titled, Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster. (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2008.