Category: Lesbian Studies

Joelle Taylor; Tracey Chandler | Lesbians Talk Violent Relationships | Publisher’s Note

Ground-breaking and much-needed discussion on violence, based on individual experiences and an extensive survey.

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Sheila Jeffreys | The Lesbian Heresy | A critique of the lesbian sex industry’s efforts to profit from women’s oppression.

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

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 lesbian

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Renée C. Hoogland | Lesbian Configurations | This book forms an introduction to the rapidly growing field of lesbian studies. Steering a middle course between ‘high theory’ and detailed textual a

Tamsin Wilton | Lesbian Studies | Neither women’s studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical political base for lesbian scholarship. Lesbian Studies: Setting an

Jennifer Terry | An American Obsession | Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensa

Elizabeth M. Ettorre | Lesbians, Women, and Society | An analysis of lesbianism as the phenomenon has developed from a ‘personal problem’ or ‘individual deviance’ to a social movement with political ambit

Laura Doan | Disturbing Practices | For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced p

Kath Weston | Families We Choose | Kath Weston draws upon fieldwork and interviews conducted in the San Francisco Bay area to explore the ways in which gay men and lesbians are construc