Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay ExperiencesKen Plummer This book of nineteen original essays by activists and academics documents and analyses the dramatic changes in lesbian and gay experience over the last twenty years. It charts the growth of lesbian and gay studies, and examines key issues around communitites, identities, relationships, sexualities and politics. These essays, edited by a leading author in the field, herald a new confidence and maturity for the growing field of lesbian and gay studies. |
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... feminism and censorship (in Mclntosh and Segal (eds) Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate, 1991). She has also contributed to Feminist Review, Square Peg, On Our Backs, Marxism Today and The Body Politic. A revised version ...
... feminism and censorship (in Mclntosh and Segal (eds) Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate, 1991). She has also contributed to Feminist Review, Square Peg, On Our Backs, Marxism Today and The Body Politic. A revised version ...
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... Feminism and Psychology and other feminist journals like Signs and Feminist Review incorporate many articles on lesbianism. Although homosexualities may still be stigmatized in many ways, it is clear that some real gains are being made ...
... Feminism and Psychology and other feminist journals like Signs and Feminist Review incorporate many articles on lesbianism. Although homosexualities may still be stigmatized in many ways, it is clear that some real gains are being made ...
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... feminist theory which produced the most developed theoretical analysis of homosexuality, centrally as a critique of ... feminists who rejected both sexuality in general and lesbianism in particular, a strong tendency was to argue for ...
... feminist theory which produced the most developed theoretical analysis of homosexuality, centrally as a critique of ... feminists who rejected both sexuality in general and lesbianism in particular, a strong tendency was to argue for ...
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... feminism became increasingly prominent. AIDS, as an area of research and theory, also came to play a central role during this latter period. Psychology critiqued the sickness model, argued that homosexuals were really normal, just like ...
... feminism became increasingly prominent. AIDS, as an area of research and theory, also came to play a central role during this latter period. Psychology critiqued the sickness model, argued that homosexuals were really normal, just like ...
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... feminist postmodernism. It examines 'the complex entanglements of identity, voice, intersubjectivity, textualities, and sexualities'. It sees 'writing as re-vision', as 'the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an ...
... feminist postmodernism. It examines 'the complex entanglements of identity, voice, intersubjectivity, textualities, and sexualities'. It sees 'writing as re-vision', as 'the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an ...
Contents
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The Turkish and Mesoamerican experience | 27 |
Part III CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES | 51 |
Pretending to be families? | 85 |
Models of love support and activism | 149 |
The lesbian case | 185 |
Radicalism rights and citizenship in the UK | 215 |
A BRIEF GUIDE TO FURTHER READING | 249 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 255 |
NAME INDEX | 272 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 276 |
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