Lesbian Studies

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 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

A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536101409Author Frances EarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 358g

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...

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 the...

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

Zest for Life draws on lesbians' experiences of menopause to highlight how lesbians, particularly at midlife, are invisibilised in society at large. Many writers and researchers have critically analysed the medical construction of menopause, yet even...

In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women's engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women's activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978807525Author Anahi Russo GarridoFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

The subject of homosexuality, and especially male homosexuality, has received a great deal of publicity in England and America. The furor began with Kinsey's famous reports on sexual behavior, which brought out the fact that a far higher proportion of...

Other work by the author includes "Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution" and "The Spinster and Her Enemies".About the AuthorSheila Jeffreys is a radical feminist writer and activist who has worked mainly against male violence and...

A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around...

In Coming Together, Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by, for, and about male-desiring men in the United States between World War II and the 1980s. From the underground films of Kenneth Anger and the...

Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with...

This book analyses twentieth-century writers who traffic in queer, non-normative, and/or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices, revealing how gender and sexually variant women create, revise, redefine, and play with language,...

In this one-of-a-kind anthology, lesbian sisters from several countries explore their relationships with one another. Through their words and photographs, both well-known and less-famous siblings reveal the many faces of lesbian sisterhood. Here is a...

A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible...

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791472224Author Mary K. Bloodsworth-LugoFormat PaperbackPage Count 137Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia.The Routledge Handbook of Queer...

In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that...