Lesbian Studies

With a foreword by Nancy Garden, the highly acclaimed author of Young Adult Fiction, this thoughtfully written annotated bibliography reviews picture books, young adult fiction, short stories nonfiction works and biographies for young readers. Entries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313248405Author Michael SchofieldFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 397g

In recent year, pro-gay and anti-gay rights activists have engaged in a struggle to sway public opinion in their favor through the use of ideologically charged rhetoric in an effort to win support from an undecided public. The author contends, however,...

Since the AIDS epidemic was recognized, information on safer sex has been assumed to be the most crucial means of preventing further spread of the disease. But how well has AIDS education worked? What kinds of education work best and for whom? This study...

This insightful new work deals with all of the contemporary issues concerning parenting by gay men and lesbians. It is designed to broaden readers' thinking on homosexuality and homosexuals in general; to include the dimension of children and parenting...

This insightful new work deals with all of the contemporary issues concerning parenting by gay men and lesbians. It is designed to broaden readers' thinking on homosexuality and homosexuals in general; to include the dimension of children and parenting...

This book shows which aspects of homosexuality are culturally variable and which are not and explores the implications for current descriptions and explanations of homosexuality. Utilizing a combination of quantitative and qualitative material, the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662904035Author Arlene GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835731796Author Gheorghe DimitriouFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Micheal KannedyPublisher Micheal KannedyWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798868943010Author Elizabeth AndreFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Tulabella Ruby PressPublisher Tulabella Ruby PressWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783441142034Author Miles JakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Indie PubPublisher Indie PubWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835731802Author Vagelis KapsalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Micheal KannedyPublisher Micheal KannedyWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777128906Author Elaina MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Elaina MartinPublisher Elaina MartinWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419659874Author Darlene BogleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

This groundbreaking collection explores the complexities of researching the lives of lesbian and queer women. It critically interrogates the concept of ‘lesbian’, especially as applied to research praxis. Who or what is a ‘lesbian’ and why does this...

Members of social groups, including communities, routinely exert subtle forms of social control on others. The Web: Social Control in a Lesbian Community is a sociological study examining the effects of informal social control-the response to behavior or...

Over the past thirty years, queer women have been coming out of the media closet to more significantly enter the mainstream consciousness. This book explores the rise of lesbian visibility since the 1990s with in-depth historical analyses of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618056972Author Lillian FadermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060950217Author Judith McDanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 327g

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965884419Author Barbee J Cassingham MaFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Soaring Eagle PublishingPublisher Soaring Eagle PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684802213Author Meg DalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 335g

This special issue of GLQ celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's groundbreaking essay, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." Credited with inaugurating the contemporary field of...

Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women's sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517910631Author Carly ThomsenFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

This book demonstrates that everyday interactions and struggles over the right words to use are at the heart of the experience of those in same-sex marriages. At a time when same-sex marriage is on the cusp of becoming legal across the United States, the...

The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested. Within lesbian communities, formed to support...

How do lesbians decide to become mothers or remain childfree? Why do new families form at particular historical moments? These questions are at the heart of Nancy J. Mezey's New Choices, New Families. Researchers, politicians, and society at large...

Scholars and students of gender and sexuality studies, women's studies, cultural geography, and critical geography will welcome this book, as will anyone interested in lesbian and women's history.Book InformationISBN 9780774830669Author Liz...

How do lesbians decide to become mothers or remain childfree? Why do new families form at particular historical moments? These questions are at the heart of Nancy J. Mezey's New Choices, New Families. Researchers, politicians, and society at large...

In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Focusing on the trauma caused by interactions with gynecologists,...

Friends as lovers; lovers as friends; ex-lovers as friends; ex-lovers as family; friends as family; communities of friends; lesbian community. These are just a few of the phrases heard often in the daily discourse of lesbian life. What significance do...

This book reviews research studies on the perceptions, discrimination and acceptance based on sexual orientation. The first chapter begins with an overview of social reaction, etiological perceptions and spiritual perspectives in LGBTQ Mormons. Chapter...

Starting in the mid-1960s, Canadian lesbians started leaving their closets en masse to find each other and build community. After decades of being pathologized or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene - both by bringing attention...

Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity  The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In...

Lives That Resist Telling challenges the resounding scholarly silence about the lives of migrant women who identify as lesbian, queer, or nonheteronormative. Reworking social science methodologies and theories, the essays explore the experiences of...

This book is an invaluable resource manual and survival guide for gay men who often turn to peers, parents, educators, or the media for direction, only to encounter misleading myths about gay life, such as the notion that "coming out solves everything." ...

In this book, an array of approaches - first person and theoretical accounts, clinical understandings, qualitative and quantitative research - are brought to bear on controversial or under-discussed topics in lesbian family life. From conception all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521633Author Anna CamilleriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 263g