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Looking Queer by Dawn Atkins

Dawn Atkins | Looking Queer | Bringing together feminism, body image, and sexual orientation, Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Comm

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Lesbian / Woman by Del Martin; Phyllis Lyon

Del Martin; Phyllis Lyon | Lesbian / Woman | Lesbian/Woman is a work by the feminist and gay rights activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, in which the authors discuss what it means to be a lesbi

Posted in Lesbian Studies Parenting & Families

Families We Choose by Kath Weston

Kath Weston | Families We Choose | This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore t

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Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies by Noreen Giffney; Katherine O’Donnell

Noreen Giffney; Katherine O’Donnell | Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies | An enlightening, entertaining look at what the term ‘lesbian’ really means–and what it means to be a lesbianTwenty-First Century Lesbian Studies focu

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Freedom To Differ by Diane Helene Miller

Diane Helene Miller | Freedom To Differ | Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights claims affects those who are tryi

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Families We Choose by Kath Weston

Kath Weston | Families We Choose | Winner of a Ruth Benedict Prize in Anthropology This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface,

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Lesbian Exposure by Dale Brittenham

Dale Brittenham | Lesbian Exposure | An exploration of the lesbian lifestyle.

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Sexual Practice/Textual Theory by Susan J. Wolfe ; Julia Penelope

Susan J. Wolfe ; Julia Penelope | Sexual Practice/Textual Theory | Gathering together lesbian writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, this volume provides a unique introduction to the full range of lesbian theory

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Unexpected Pleasures by Tamsin Wilton

Tamsin Wilton | Unexpected Pleasures | Why do some women become lesbians in their twenties, thirties, or even in their sixties? After interviewing close to a hundred women for an academic p

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S.C.U.M. Manifesto by Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas | S.C.U.M. Manifesto | Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-publ