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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... lesbian and gay movements erupted on the world-wide cultural and political ... sex experience. It will be a landmark in consolidating past debates and ... lesbian and gay experience Edited by.
... lesbian and gay movements erupted on the world-wide cultural and political ... sex experience. It will be a landmark in consolidating past debates and ... lesbian and gay experience Edited by.
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... lesbian motherhood at the University of Essex. With her lesbian partner she has also managed, fairly successfully, to foster over fifty children—despite her sexual orientation! She seems to be spending a lot of her time lately talking ...
... lesbian motherhood at the University of Essex. With her lesbian partner she has also managed, fairly successfully, to foster over fifty children—despite her sexual orientation! She seems to be spending a lot of her time lately talking ...
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Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Ken Plummer. Summer 1990), lesbian representation (in Boffin and Fraser (eds) Stolen Glances, 1991), and feminism and censorship (in Mclntosh and Segal (eds) Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the ...
Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Ken Plummer. Summer 1990), lesbian representation (in Boffin and Fraser (eds) Stolen Glances, 1991), and feminism and censorship (in Mclntosh and Segal (eds) Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the ...
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... lesbian and gay experience, they also signpost how new worlds are being made: vibrant, positive, and curiously familial. Is this the shape of things to come? No late twentieth-century writing on same-sex experience can neglect AIDS and ...
... lesbian and gay experience, they also signpost how new worlds are being made: vibrant, positive, and curiously familial. Is this the shape of things to come? No late twentieth-century writing on same-sex experience can neglect AIDS and ...
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Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Ken Plummer. SPEAKING. ITS. NAME. Inventing. a. lesbian. and. gay. studies. Ken ... sex manuals; from medical, legal, and selfhelp handbooks to lesbian detective stories, gay science fiction, and AIDS ...
Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Ken Plummer. SPEAKING. ITS. NAME. Inventing. a. lesbian. and. gay. studies. Ken ... sex manuals; from medical, legal, and selfhelp handbooks to lesbian detective stories, gay science fiction, and AIDS ...
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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Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Kenneth Plummer Limited preview - 1992 |
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