What A Lesbian Looks Like

Author : Kris Kleindienst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Lesbians
ISBN : UOM:49015002518851

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Twenty-six lesbian grassroots activists -- some of them household names nationally, others known only within their local communities -- help us focus on the future of our lesbian lives as we move into the next century. Written with both heart and smarts, in language that speaks to the dailiness of personal experience and larger political questions, This Is What Lesbian Looks Like is the kind of reading that helps to shape a movement. If any disenfranchised group is only as strong as its weakest members, how do we think about lesbians who are not white, able-bodied, and middle class? What is lost in the gap that exists between the first generation to age having lived their adult lives out of the closet and the young dykes for whom out feels like a been there/done that kind of thing?Where does fighting the Right fit into the rainbow rush toward assimilation? How will lesbian identity be defined within the multiplicity of gender expressions becoming increasingly visible? Not easy, but essential nonetheless -- these are some of the critical issues tackled in This Is What Lesbian Looks Like's two dozen essays.

Author : National Lesbian and Gay Survey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134893515

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What a Lesbian Looks Like by National Lesbian and Gay Survey Pdf

The National Lesbian and Gay Survey is a mass observation project set up in 1985 to record the experience of lesbians and gay men. Since that time, lesbian and gay volunteers have provided accounts on a wide range of issues pertinent to lesbian and gay life. What a Lesbian Looks Like draws on this material to provide an anthology of personal writings from lesbians nationwide. The volunteers come from all walks of life, from the unemployed to holders of high powered jobs, and represent all age groups. A ll aspects of lesbian experience are covered, including first sexual encounters, long term relationships, the difficulties of coming out and Clause 28. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the fields of women's studies, gender studies and cultural studies.

Author : National Lesbian and Gay Survey (Organization)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780415081559

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What a Lesbian Looks Like by National Lesbian and Gay Survey (Organization) Pdf

The National Lesbian and Gay Survey is a mass observation project set up in 1985 to record the experience of lesbians and gay men. This work draws on that material to provide an anthology of personal writings from lesbians from all walks of life which offers a picture of lesbian life in general.

Author : Lisa Walker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814793725

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Looking Like what You are by Lisa Walker Pdf

Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import. Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions of what it means to look like a lesbian, and what it means to be a lesbian but not to look like one. She analyzes the historical production of the lesbian body as marked, and studies how lesbians have used the frequent analogy between racial difference and sexual orientation to craft, emphasize, or deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed. Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as The Well of Loneliness and Wide Sargasso Sea, pulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s, post-modern literature as Michelle Cliff's Abeng, and queer theory. In the book's final chapter, "How to Recognize a Lesbian," Walker argues that strategies of visibility are at times deconstructed, at times reinscribed within contemporary lesbian-feminist theory.

Author : Robin Lowey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532353715

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Game Changers by Robin Lowey Pdf

Author : National Lesbian and Gay Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Lesbianism
ISBN : OCLC:1281759980

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What a lesbian looks like by National Lesbian and Gay Survey Pdf

Author : Lauren D. Costine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781442248090

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Lesbian Love Addiction by Lauren D. Costine Pdf

Everyone makes mistakes in relationships at one time or another. Sometimes they learn from those mistakes. Other times, they return to those behaviors and cycle through failed relationship after failed relationship. Sometimes those behaviors become an addiction to love that may leave a person feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, lonely, or worse. Lesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things go Wrong makes visible the elements of love addiction that many lesbians suffer from. Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don’t know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even addicted to fantasy and intrigue, while others are love avoidants and sexual anorexics. Love avoidants may be able to get into a relationship but once they are fully committed, struggle with feeling smothered. Others may avoid intimate or sexual relationships all together, becoming sexually anorexic. Some may even vacillate between all of these. The underlying component and common denominator in all of these scenarios is the “Urge to Merge.” Lesbian Love Addiction is designed to help ameliorate at least part of this problem. Lauren D. Costine offers insight for lesbians, bisexual women in relationships with women, queer women, and more specifically, any woman who loves women, as well as their family and friends, and health care professionals, into the psychology of lesbian love addiction. It will give those who struggle with and suffer from love addiction ways to understand, cope, and heal from this debilitating addiction. It will give those who work with this population new tools to use to do this more effectively. Mostly, it will help lesbians understand their relationship failures and how to heal from problems associated with them, so they may grow and cultivate happier, more fulfilling connections in the future.

Author : National Lesbian and Gay Survey (Organization)
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-06
Category : Lesbianism
ISBN : 6610141967

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What a Lesbian Looks Like by National Lesbian and Gay Survey (Organization) Pdf

The National Lesbian and Gay Survey is a mass observation project set up in 1985 to record the experience of lesbians and gay men. Since that time lesbian and gay volunteers have provided accounts on a wide range of issues pertinent to lesbian and gay life. What a Lesbian Looks Like draws on this material to provide an anthology of personal writings from lesbians nationwide. The volunteers come from all walks of life, from the unemployed to holders of high powered jobs, and represent all age groups. All aspects of lesbian experience are covered, including first sexual encounters, long term relationships, the difficulties of coming out and clause 28. The anthology is unique in providing such a large number of personal accounts and such a rich diversity of views of lesbian life and experience.

Author : Julie Murphy
Publisher : Balzer + Bray
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 006241836X

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Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Pdf

The fourth novel from Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’—now a Netflix feature film starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston, with a soundtrack by Dolly Parton! For fans of Rainbow Rowell and Morgan Matson, Julie Murphy has created another fearless heroine, Ramona Blue, in a gorgeously evocative novel about family, friendship, and how sometimes love can be more fluid than you first think. Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever. Since then, it’s been Ramona and her family against the world. Standing over six feet tall with unmistakable blue hair, Ramona is sure of three things: she likes girls, she’s fiercely devoted to her family, and she knows she’s destined for something bigger than the trailer she calls home in Eulogy, Mississippi. But juggling multiple jobs, her flaky mom, and her well-meaning but ineffectual dad forces her to be the adult of the family. Now, with her sister, Hattie, pregnant, responsibility weighs more heavily than ever. The return of her childhood friend Freddie brings a welcome distraction. Ramona’s friendship with the former competitive swimmer picks up exactly where it left off, and soon he’s talked her into joining him for laps at the pool. But as Ramona falls in love with swimming, her feelings for Freddie begin to shift too, which is the last thing she expected. With her growing affection for Freddie making her question her sexual identity, Ramona begins to wonder if perhaps she likes girls and guys or if this new attraction is just a fluke. Either way, Ramona will discover that, for her, life and love are more fluid than they seem.

Author : Xequina Maria Berber,Giovanna Capone,Cheela Romaine Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1943837643

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Dispatches from Lesbian America by Xequina Maria Berber,Giovanna Capone,Cheela Romaine Smith Pdf

Dispatches from Lesbian America is a collection of more than forty works of short fiction and memoir from contemporary writers, some newly emerging and some well-known. Unique in recent lesbian anthologies, these thoughtful stories address themes meaningful to us in the modern world. Featured Authors: Charlene Allen, Mari Alschuler, Joan Annsfire, Roxanne Ansolabehere, Terry Baum, Xequina Maria Berber, Elizabeth Bernays, Lynn Brown, Giovanna Capone, Susan Clements, Elana Dykewomon, Haley Fedor, Joanne Fleisher, Pippa Fleming, Judy Grahn, Felicia Hayes, Lois Rita Helmbold, Chante Shirelle Holsey, Toke Hoppenbrouwers, Happy/L.A. Hyder, Bev Jafek, Bev Jo, Lenn Keller, Heidi LaMoreaux, Alison Laurie, Mo Markham, Arielle Nyx McKee, Heal McKnight, Helena Montgomery, Dr. Bonnie J. Morris, Ashley Obinwanne, Artemis Passionflower, Tonya Primm, Francesca Roccaforte, Lilith Rogers, Ruth A. Rouff, Heath Atom Russell, Barbara Ruth, Mary Saracino, Cheela "Rome" Smith, Tess Tabak, and Polly Taylor.

Author : DAISY. JONES
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529328039

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All the Things She Said by DAISY. JONES Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1390782379

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What a lesbian looks like by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wise Cracks
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781984594518

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Lick Like a Lesbian by Wise Cracks Pdf

The book is a fun but informative guide to perfecting oral sex.

Author : Bonnie J. Morris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438461786

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The Disappearing L by Bonnie J. Morris Pdf

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s. 2018 Over the Rainbow Selection, presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association LGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry—but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s? Most are vanishing from the calendar—and from recent memory. The Disappearing L explores the rise and fall of the hugely popular women-only concerts, festivals, bookstores, and support spaces built by and for lesbians in the era of woman-identified activism. Through the stories unfolding in these chapters, anyone unfamiliar with the Michigan festival, Olivia Records, or the women’s bookstores once dotting the urban landscape will gain a better understanding of the era in which artists and activists first dared to celebrate lesbian lives. This book offers the backstory to the culture we are losing to mainstreaming and assimilation. Through interviews with older activists, it also responds to recent attacks on lesbian feminists who are being made to feel that they’ve hit their cultural expiration date. Bonnie J. Morris is Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies at both George Washington University and Georgetown University. She is the author of several books, including Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women’s Music Festivals and Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Cameron Duder
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,7 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.