Lesbian Lives

Author : Maggie Magee,Diana C. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134898732

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Lesbian Lives by Maggie Magee,Diana C. Miller Pdf

In this groundbreaking re-visioning of lesbianism, Magee and Miller transcend a literature that, for decades, has focused on the timeworn and misconceived task of formulating a lesbian-specific psychology. Rather, they focus on a set of interrelated issues of far greater salience in our time: the developmental and psychological consequences of identifying as homosexual and of having lesbian relationships. Their consideration of these issues leads to a rigorous review of major psychoanalytic and biological theories about female homosexuality and a probing examination of current notions of gender identity. These tasks set the stage for Magee and Miller's own model of psychologically mature sexuality between members of the same sex. The developmental and clinical issues taken up in specific chapters of Lesbian Lives include the challenges facing lesbian adolescents; the psychological and social significance of "coming out"; the various meanings and contexts of coming out as a gay or lesbian analyst; the interaction of individual psyche and social context in clinical work with lesbian patients; and the history of homosexual therapists and psychoanalytic training. The chapter on "Bryher," the lesbian-identified life partner of the poet Hilda Doolittle (Freud's patient "H.D."), relying on unpublished documents, is not only a wonderful exemplification of themes developed throughout the work, but an invaluable contribution to psychoanalytic history. Lesbian Lives is a heartening sign of the generous scholarship and humane impulse that are transforming psychoanalysis in our time. In writing infused with an experiential immediacy born of personal participation in the stories they tell, Magee and Miller weave a multiplicity of narratives into a fabric of explanation far richer, far more colorful --far truer to lived experience--than anything psychoanalysis has heretofore offered on the subject.

Author : Cameron Duder
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774817400

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Awfully Devoted Women by Cameron Duder Pdf

The lives of many lesbians prior to 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class “romantic friends” and on working-class butch and femme women, but the lives of the lower-middle-class majority remain in the shadows. Awfully Devoted Women offers a portrait of middle-class lesbianism in the decades before the gay rights movement in English Canada. This intimate study of the lives of women who were forced to love in secret not only challenges the idea that lesbian relationships in the past were asexual, it also reveals the courage it took to explore desire in an era when women were supposed to know little about sexuality.

Author : Maggie Magee,Diana C. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134898664

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Lesbian Lives by Maggie Magee,Diana C. Miller Pdf

In this groundbreaking re-visioning of lesbianism, Magee and Miller transcend a literature that, for decades, has focused on the timeworn and misconceived task of formulating a lesbian-specific psychology. Rather, they focus on a set of interrelated issues of far greater salience in our time: the developmental and psychological consequences of identifying as homosexual and of having lesbian relationships. Their consideration of these issues leads to a rigorous review of major psychoanalytic and biological theories about female homosexuality and a probing examination of current notions of gender identity. These tasks set the stage for Magee and Miller's own model of psychologically mature sexuality between members of the same sex. The developmental and clinical issues taken up in specific chapters of Lesbian Lives include the challenges facing lesbian adolescents; the psychological and social significance of "coming out"; the various meanings and contexts of coming out as a gay or lesbian analyst; the interaction of individual psyche and social context in clinical work with lesbian patients; and the history of homosexual therapists and psychoanalytic training. The chapter on "Bryher," the lesbian-identified life partner of the poet Hilda Doolittle (Freud's patient "H.D."), relying on unpublished documents, is not only a wonderful exemplification of themes developed throughout the work, but an invaluable contribution to psychoanalytic history. Lesbian Lives is a heartening sign of the generous scholarship and humane impulse that are transforming psychoanalysis in our time. In writing infused with an experiential immediacy born of personal participation in the stories they tell, Magee and Miller weave a multiplicity of narratives into a fabric of explanation far richer, far more colorful --far truer to lived experience--than anything psychoanalysis has heretofore offered on the subject.

Author : Bertram J. Cohler,Robert M. Galatzer-Levy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226113036

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The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives by Bertram J. Cohler,Robert M. Galatzer-Levy Pdf

The authors argue that there is little support for assuming that homosexuality has a biological basis. Recognizing the many pathways that lead to same-gender sexual orientation, the authors conclude that the cause is much less important than understanding the meaning of being homosexual.

Author : F. Stella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137321244

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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia by F. Stella Pdf

This book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. It explores changes and continuities by examining generational differences, and attends to regional variation by considering what 'lesbian' life looks like in different locations, problematising essentialist accounts of Russian sexualities and western-centric theorizations.

Author : Diane Raymond
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807079235

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Looking At Gay & Lesbian Life by Diane Raymond Pdf

Discusses gender roles, human sexuality, prejudice, discrimination, lesbian and gay politics, AIDS, gay culture, and the homosexual in literature

Author : Martin Duberman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814718834

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Queer Representations by Martin Duberman Pdf

Queer Representations celebrates the eclectic, diverse nature of gay and lesbian culture and its production. The volume begins by asking how we can interpret an image--is the image homosexual and if so, how can we understand it? Closely connected to its interpretation is how we visualize homosexuality, or, in Allen Ellenzweig's term, how we picture the homoerotic, the organizing principle of a section devoted to American cinema and performance in general. The crucial role of biography and autobiography is the central preoccupation of the next section, with essays on Radclyffe Hall, Langston Hughes, and Louisa May Alcott. Featuring many of the most respected figures in queer studies and contemporary queer literature, among them Dorothy Allison, Edmund White, Barbara Smith, Essex Hemphill, Michael Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel R. Delany, Dale Peck, Jewelle Gomez, Joan Nestle, a final section explores the creation of queer literature, birthpangs, growing pains, and achievements. By emphasizing the interconnectedness of gay and lesbian lives and the literature which has been instrumental in defining, reconstructing, and representing these lives, this anthology serves as a diverse introduction to queer culture and literature.

Author : Yvette Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230592384

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Working-Class Lesbian Life by Yvette Taylor Pdf

This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insight, a critique of queer theory and an empirical interrogation of the embodied, spatial and material intersection of class and sexuality.

Author : Gershen Kaufman,Lev Raphael
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:49015003195675

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Coming Out of Shame by Gershen Kaufman,Lev Raphael Pdf

Gershen Kaufman and Lev Raphael expose the role shame has come to play in the lives of gay men and lesbians. The authors break the silence surrounding gay and lesbian experience so that individuals can "come out" of shame and begin a path toward personal growth and acceptance.

Author : Rosie Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781136918964

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Regulating Sexuality by Rosie Harding Pdf

Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives explores the impact that recent seismic shifts in the legal landscape have had for lesbians and gay men. The last decade has been a time of extensive change in the legal regulation of lesbian and gay lives in Britain, Canada and the US. Almost every area where the law impacts on sexuality has been reformed or modified. These legal developments combine to create a new, uncharted terrain for lesbians and gay men. And, through an analysis of their attitudes, views and experiences, this book explores the effects of these developments. Drawing on, and developing, the concept of ‘legal consciousness’, Regulating Sexuality focuses on four different ‘texts’: qualitative responses to a large-scale online survey of lesbians’ and gay men’s views about the legal recognition of same sex relationships; published auto/biographical narratives about being and becoming a lesbian or gay parent; semi-structured, in-depth, interviews with lesbians and gay men about relationship recognition, parenting, discrimination and equality; and fictional utopian texts. In this study of the interaction between law and society in social justice movements, Rosie Harding interweaves insights from the new legal pluralism with legal consciousness studies to present a rich and nuanced exploration of the contemporary regulation of sexuality.

Author : J Dianne Garner,D. Merilee Clunis,Pat A. Freeman,Nancy M. Nystrom,Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317718307

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Lives of Lesbian Elders by J Dianne Garner,D. Merilee Clunis,Pat A. Freeman,Nancy M. Nystrom,Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen Pdf

The untold history of lesbian life from those who have lived it! Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward illuminates the hopes, fears, issues, and concerns of gay women as they grow older. Based on interviews with 62 lesbians ranging in age from 55 to 95, this very special book provides a historical account of the shared experiences of the lesbian community that is so often invisible or ignored in contemporary society. The book gives voice to their thoughts and feelings on a wide range of issues, including coming out, identity and the meaning of life, the role of family and personal relationships, work and retirement, adversity, and individual sources of strength and resilience. Cast off and overlooked at best or victims of scorn and prejudice at worst, lesbians in the twentieth century lived dual lives, their full voices unheard—until now. Lives of Lesbian Elders chronicles the life choices they made and their reasons for making them, set against the contexts of culture, politics, and the social mores of the eras in which they lived. Their stories of courage, resilience, resourcefulness, pride, and independence help restore lesbian history that has been forgotten, distorted, or disregarded and provide the information necessary to meet the future needs of aging lesbians. Lives of Lesbian Elders gives aging lesbians a chance to discuss their thoughts on a variety of topics, including: Coming out “You didn’t talk about it . . . Until two years ago, I never even referred to a lesbian or would I allow the word to pass my lips” “I used to sneak into libraries and read about homosexuality and back in that era, it was not classy . . . it was classified as a disorder of some type” Identity “The only difference between me and anybody else is that I just happen to be sleeping with a woman” “I think I grew up not really knowing who I was and, I think, probably fighting all my life trying to find out who I was” Family “I feel very connected with the lesbian community here . . . I guess I would call that family” “Many years ago, my sister said: ’I think when they’re ready, you need to explain to (the nieces) what a lesbian is, because I want them to hear the correct story . . . I want them to hear what it really is and not all these stupid rumors that go around’” Work “I was going to become a youth minister at one point and it dawned on me in high school that there was no way the church was going to let me work with kids” “I didn’t really finish my career . . . I still have dreams about the military and about not finishing . . . It was my choice, but it wasn’t really my choice” Aging and the Future “I think financing, of course, is a real big problem for lesbian women” “I have a concern that if anything should happen to my partner—in growing older—of being isolated from the gay community” . . . and much more! Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward also includes appendices that present demographic data on the women who were interviewed for the book, information on historical timelines, and suggested readings on lesbian history. The book is an invaluable addition to the growing collective history of lesbians in the United States.

Author : Gilbert H Herdt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429977091

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Same Sex, Different Cultures by Gilbert H Herdt Pdf

Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals around the world, Same Sex, Different Cultures provides a unique perspective on maturing and living within societies, both historical and contemporary, that not only acknowledge but also incorporate same-gender desires and relations.Examining what it means to organize ?sex? in a society that lacks a category for ?sex,? or to love someone of the same gender when society does not have a ?homosexual? or ?gay/lesbian? role, Herdt provides provocative new insights in our understanding of gay and lesbians lives. Accurate in both its scientific conceptions and wealth of cultural and historical material, examples range from the ancient Greeks and feudal China and Japan to the developing countries of Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, and Thailand, from a New Guinea society to contemporary U.S. culture, including Native Americans. For all of these peoples, homoerotic relations emerge as part of culture?and not separate from history or society.In many of these groups, loving or engaging in sexual relations is found to be the very basis of the local cultural theory of ?human nature? and the mythological basis for the cosmos and the creation of society. The mistake of modern Western culture, Gilbert contends, is to continue the legalization of prejudice against lesbians and gays.In this light, the book addresses the issue of ?universal? versus particular practices and reveals positive role models that embrace all aspects of human sexuality. Finally, it offers knowledge of the existence of persons who have loved and have been intimate sexually and romantically with the same gender in other lands through divergent cultural practices and social roles.The most important lesson to learn from this cross-cultural and historical study of homosexuality is that there is room for many at the table of humankind.

Author : Nicky Hallett
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004410731

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Lesbian Lives by Nicky Hallett Pdf

Examining cultural representations of lesbianism, Hallet offers a fascinating exploration of identity, sexuality and gender.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017456091

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Common Lives, Lesbian Lives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicky Hallett
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024871423

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Lesbian Lives by Nicky Hallett Pdf

Examining cultural representations of lesbianism, Hallet offers a fascinating exploration of identity, sexuality and gender.