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]
Works
Scholarly
Morris, Bonnie J. (1997). The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A. Westport, Connecticut:
Bergin & Garvey.
ISBN978-0897894944.[10]
^Henry, Jeanne (2002). "Lubavitcher Women in America". AJS Review. 26 (2): 403–404.
doi:
10.1017/S0364009402460114.
ISSN0364-0094.
S2CID162284187.
ProQuest195848578. 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)
^Brewer, Rosellen (April 1999). "Eden Built by Eves". Library Journal. 124 (6): 101.
ISSN0363-0277.
ProQuest196830514. 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.
ProQuest1882434931. ...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.
ProQuest236963184. 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.