Category: LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

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The Whole Lesbian Sex Book by Felice Newman

Felice Newman | The Whole Lesbian Sex Book | Cure for cancer? End to world hunger? What’s left to do after the publication of Felice Newman’s definitive guide to lesbian sex? Drawing on a wide ra

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The Gay Report by Karla Jay

Karla Jay | The Gay Report | A classic book about gay and lesbian sexuality in the era before AIDS — a must-have for any serious gay historian or scholar.

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Sexual Intimacy For Women by Glenda Corwin

Glenda Corwin | Sexual Intimacy For Women | Sexual Intimacy for Women helps female couples examine the emotional, physical, and psychological aspects of their relationships, with the goal of cre

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Lesbian Communities by Esther D. Rothblum; Penny Sablove

Esther D. Rothblum; Penny Sablove | Lesbian Communities | One of the driving forces in the lives of many lesbians, is the search for community in a society that favours heterosexuality and often turns a cold

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Feeling Backward by Heather Love

Heather Love | Feeling Backward | Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex mar

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Falling Into The Lesbi World by Evelyn Blackwood

Evelyn Blackwood | Falling Into The Lesbi World | Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends (fem

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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People With Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation by John D. Allen

John D. Allen | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People With Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation | Allen’s succinct book is a very readable account of the Rainbow Support Group based in Connecticut, USA. Significantly, it states that Connecticut has

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Out of the Mouth of Queers by Erin McHugh

Erin McHugh | Out of the Mouth of Queers | Thoughts from the gays of yesteryear to today’s ‘friends of queers.’ Observations on love and sex, politics, fashion and much more, these are the word

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Social Work Practice With Older Lesbians And Gay Men by Ann Fannin; Lee-Ann Fenge; Tina Hicks; Nichola Lavin; Keith Brown

Ann Fannin; Lee-Ann Fenge; Tina Hicks; Nichola Lavin; Keith Brown | Social Work Practice With Older Lesbians And Gay Men | Recent policy in Britain has promoted the recognition of diversity of experience in later life. However, despite this, sexuality in later life is a li

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Joining the Tribe by Linnea A. Due

Linnea A. Due | Joining the Tribe | Like a lot of fortysomething gay men and lesbians, including me, Linnea Due thought that the post-Stonewall culture, full of queer parades, films, and