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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... Women and the AIDS Crisis (2nd edition, 1989), Safer Sex (1990), Women, Motherhood and Childrearing (1992), and Introducing Women's Studies (1992). Pat Romans undertook her doctoral research into lesbian motherhood at the University of ...
... Women and the AIDS Crisis (2nd edition, 1989), Safer Sex (1990), Women, Motherhood and Childrearing (1992), and Introducing Women's Studies (1992). Pat Romans undertook her doctoral research into lesbian motherhood at the University of ...
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... women loving women who raise children. Another sign for the future? For Peter Nardi, the theme is 'friends as family': how the lesbian and gay communities provide opportunities for love and care that are as strong as any traditional ...
... women loving women who raise children. Another sign for the future? For Peter Nardi, the theme is 'friends as family': how the lesbian and gay communities provide opportunities for love and care that are as strong as any traditional ...
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... women's movement. Ironically, it has now become increasingly clear that some of these earlier studies of the causes and classifications of 'the homosexual'—to be denounced by the 1970s—were in fact done by men (qua men) who would, these ...
... women's movement. Ironically, it has now become increasingly clear that some of these earlier studies of the causes and classifications of 'the homosexual'—to be denounced by the 1970s—were in fact done by men (qua men) who would, these ...
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... women can give to each other a new sense of self. That identity we have to develop with reference to ourselves, and not in relation to men.... Our energies must flow toward our sisters, not backward toward our oppressors. As long as women's ...
... women can give to each other a new sense of self. That identity we have to develop with reference to ourselves, and not in relation to men.... Our energies must flow toward our sisters, not backward toward our oppressors. As long as women's ...
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... women's studies or black studies, with which strong parallels may be drawn, there are indeed relatively few institutionalized bases for gay and lesbian studies. Both women's studies and black studies have had their difficulties and ...
... women's studies or black studies, with which strong parallels may be drawn, there are indeed relatively few institutionalized bases for gay and lesbian studies. Both women's studies and black studies have had their difficulties and ...
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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