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Lesbian and bisexual women’s interpretations of lesbian and ersatz lesbian pornography

Sexuality and Culture, 2005
The purpose of the current study was to examine non-heterosexual women’s interpretations of “lesbian” material contained in pornography targeting male viewers and pornography made by and for lesbian women. Four focus groups were conducted (N=17) in which participants saw two pornographic sequences; one ostensibly for heterosexual males and the other ...
Todd G. Morrison, Dani Tallack
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Lesbians as Luvbeins

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1999
SUMMARY Lesbians who do not follow the imperative of monogamous, live-in lovers with one other woman are seen as traitors, heretics, and generally fallen women. In a community that often demands conformity, we must find language that includes other ways of being.
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Homosexuality and Lesbianism

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1983
DefinitionsHomosexual behaviour often occurs among persons who do not have a settled homosexual orientation. Sometimes, as among prisoners, it can be the direct result of lack of contact with the opposite sex. Around puberty, especially among males, it may represent the easiest way of testing sexual performance.
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A Lesbian in the Punditry

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2010
This article argues that Rachel Maddow has become one of a growing number of new public lesbians. This is a subject position that makes no secret of or apology for lesbian identity. Nor does it seek to make explicit political claims for liberation or separation.
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Lesbian Nuns

2014
This chapter focuses on extensive public silence about the lives of lesbian religious women. It describes decades of ministry and dialogue that have nonetheless taken place within New Ways Ministry and other groups. It explores three main themes that have been part of this development in the lives of lesbian nuns since the 1970s: sexual identity ...
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Medieval Arab Lesbians and Lesbian-Like Women

Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2009
If t h e a b s e n c e o f a s p e c i f i c terminology to denote lesbianism in medieval Europe seems to have compromised the production of scholarship about same-sex love and desire among women, the existence of the label sahq and sihaqa, musahaqat al-nisa’, or sahiqa (Arabic words for “lesbianism” and “lesbian,” respectively) in medieval Arabic ...
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Lesbian Client-Lesbian Therapist:

Journal of Homosexuality, 1982
The author describes her experiences as an openly identified lesbian clinical psychologist working with 50 lesbians over the past 4 years in metropolitan Los Angeles. The women she has worked with have generally been Caucasian and middle-class; half were in their 30s, one quarter were in their 20s, and another quarter over 40 years of age.
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Lesbian Studies After The Lesbian Postmodern

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2007
While Lesbian Studies is established as a commodity in the academic marketplace, its disciplinary contours are rather more obscure-and even more problematically, its disciplinary genealogy remains somewhat crude. The dominant genealogy of Lesbian Studies might best be characterized as a 'collision model,' a battle between politics and theory, even ...
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Lesbian books are no longer just for lesbians: legacies of lesbian print culture

Continuum, 2017
Since 1996, two significant film adaptations of lesbian novels remediated the work of lesbian-feminism for broader audiences.
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Lesbian Books, Lesbian Book Reviewing

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1997
Abstract The emergence of lesbian book reviewing as a genre has several causes: the boom in lesbian book publishing; the increased visibility of lesbian books in mainstream bookstores; heterosexual readers' current fascination with lesbians and lesbianism; a growth in academic and feminist interest in lesbianism and “queer studies”; a general appetite ...
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