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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Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Ken Plummer. Gay and lesbian studies ... lesbians, alcoholism, and 'the family', and it has spawned several others such ... identity of being gay in a context of oppression. This—the modern, Western ...
Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences Ken Plummer. Gay and lesbian studies ... lesbians, alcoholism, and 'the family', and it has spawned several others such ... identity of being gay in a context of oppression. This—the modern, Western ...
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... lesbian experience: explicit, open, out. Most ofthese earlier writings ... identity we have to develop with reference to ourselves, and not in relation ... Lesbian Nation, Mary Daly's gynocentric universe, or Adrienne Rich's lesbian ...
... lesbian experience: explicit, open, out. Most ofthese earlier writings ... identity we have to develop with reference to ourselves, and not in relation ... Lesbian Nation, Mary Daly's gynocentric universe, or Adrienne Rich's lesbian ...
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... lesbian scholarship has embraced many disciplines—disciplines which ... identity in England, it was a 'modern history'. But, subsequently ... lesbian studies to help in the rethinking of history and anthropology themselves. Throughout ...
... lesbian scholarship has embraced many disciplines—disciplines which ... identity in England, it was a 'modern history'. But, subsequently ... lesbian studies to help in the rethinking of history and anthropology themselves. Throughout ...
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... lesbian and gay film. Much of this newer critical writing draws from feminist postmodernism. It examines 'the complex entanglements of identity, voice, intersubjectivity, textualities, and sexualities'. It sees 'writing as re-vision ...
... lesbian and gay film. Much of this newer critical writing draws from feminist postmodernism. It examines 'the complex entanglements of identity, voice, intersubjectivity, textualities, and sexualities'. It sees 'writing as re-vision ...
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... lesbian causes, there is employment discrimination, and so on. A clear identity is needed to help foster a public recognition of the value of such work and to counterbalance objections. There are distinct parallels in all this with ...
... lesbian causes, there is employment discrimination, and so on. A clear identity is needed to help foster a public recognition of the value of such work and to counterbalance objections. There are distinct parallels in all this with ...
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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