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 stage during the early 1970s, few could ... studies. Gay and lesbian studies is a vibrant new area of inquiry, and a major opening essay situates this development ...
... lesbian and gay movements erupted on the world-wide cultural and political stage during the early 1970s, few could ... studies. Gay and lesbian studies is a vibrant new area of inquiry, and a major opening essay situates this development ...
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Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Ken Plummer. CONTENTS. Notes on contributors x Preface Part I Introduction: gay and lesbian world making 1 SPEAKING ITS NAME: INVENTING A LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 3 Ken Plummer Part II Establishing ...
Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Ken Plummer. CONTENTS. Notes on contributors x Preface Part I Introduction: gay and lesbian world making 1 SPEAKING ITS NAME: INVENTING A LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 3 Ken Plummer Part II Establishing ...
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... Lesbian Movement. He is currently doing research in new social movement theory and on 'Impacts of HIV on personal ... Studies and Drama at Middlesex Polytechnic in London, spending a semester at Sacramento State University in California. She ...
... Lesbian Movement. He is currently doing research in new social movement theory and on 'Impacts of HIV on personal ... Studies and Drama at Middlesex Polytechnic in London, spending a semester at Sacramento State University in California. She ...
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... Studies (1992). Pat Romans undertook her doctoral research into 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 ...
... Studies (1992). Pat Romans undertook her doctoral research into 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 ...
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... Studies at the University of Essex. She is the co-founder of PUSSY (Perverts Undermining State Scrutiny), an affinity group in OutRage. PUSSY brings lesbians and gay men together in the fight against censorship from outside and within ...
... Studies at the University of Essex. She is the co-founder of PUSSY (Perverts Undermining State Scrutiny), an affinity group in OutRage. PUSSY brings lesbians and gay men together in the fight against censorship from outside and within ...
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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