Renate (84) nennt sich Lesbe, ist aber mit einem Mann verheiratet. Berti (78) liebt Elisabeth (77) seit über vierzig Jahren, ist vierfache Grossmutter und geschieden. Margrit (81) führte in den 1960er-Jahren Tanzabende für Frauen durch. Liva (82) betete nach ihrem ersten Mal mit…
With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Ch…
With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Ch…
Through an examination of a variety of cultural forms and texts, Sexy Bodies investigates the ways in which sexual bodies, sexual practices and sexualities are produced.
Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and wit…
"INFORMATION ACTIVISM surveys the media produced by lesbian feminist archivists, librarians, historians, and hotline workers over the past 50 years, showing how volunteer-driven activist information projects formed the basis for queer digital media practices today. Recognizing a…
The Internet that lesbians built : paper newsletter networks -- Calling to talk and listening well : information as care at telephone hotlines -- The indexers : dreaming of computers while shuffling paper cards -- Feminist digitization practices at the Lesbian Herstory Archives …
"Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures. Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. I…
In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies. This book introduces readers to important concepts, methods and cultural and historical debates relevant to the study of sexuality and literature.
Examines the medical, social, and legal dimensions of the use of assisted reproductive technologies by lesbian women.
"Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. This book is a sociological analysis of lesbians' use of these …
"An intimate glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society. The LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and warrior orders have a long and recognised tradition of same-sex love, to be considered different, to be…
"Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women's claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of homosexual identities and concepts in this same time frame provided the context for expression of individual struggles with self,…