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	All Books by Gloria Anzaldua - Author of : La Frontera / Borderlands Paperback - 260 pages 2nd edition (May 15, 1999) Consortium Book Sales & Dist; ISBN: 1879960567 "Lesbian Studies/Culture; Fir st published in 1987, "Borderlands" has become a classic in Chicano border studies, feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Sue-Ellen Case - Author of : The Domain-Matrix : Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture Paperback (January 1997) Indiana University Press; ISBN: 0253210941 "Lesbian Studies/Culture; For the Techno Dyke: The domain-matrix is about the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture and how this passage affects the reader or computer user. Sections are organised to emulate, in a printed book, the readers experience of computer windows. Case traces the portrait of the virtual identities within queer and lesbian critical practice and virtual technologies..... click through for more information." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Lee Fleming - Editor of : Hot Licks : Lesbian Musicians of Note Paperback - 136 pages (September 1996) Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr; ISBN: 0921881428 "Lesbian Studies/Culture; Biographical Information on Lesbian Musicians including; Azucar y Crema, Jennifer Berezan, Heather Bishop, Alix Dobkin, Melissa Ferrick, Ferron, Girls in the Nose, Janis Ian, Nedra Johnson, k.d.lang, Connie Lofton, Faith Nolan, Genevieve Paris, Phranc, Random Order, Toshi Reagon, Judy Small, Topp Twins, Tribe 8, The Well Oiled Sisters, Cris Williamson & Tret Fure, Wyrd Sisters and Zrazy" Note: Many of these lesbian musicians have CDs available in our music section!" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Sandra Freeman - Author of : Putting Your Daughters on the Stage : British Lesbian Theatre from the 1960s to the Present Paperback - 224 pages (March 1997) Continuum; ISBN: 0304333093 "Lesbian Studies/Culture; This is a comprehensive exploration of how lesbian theatre emerged in Britain, from the left-wing fringe theatre of the 1960s to lesbian involvement in the Gay Sweatshop performances of the 1970s. The book examines the work of such companies as Gay Sweatshop, Siren Theatre Company, The Sadista Sisters, Women's Theatre Company, Monstrous Regiment and Cunning Stunts, and considers lesbian-specific theatre venues as "lesbian spaces". It also considers the role of the Arts Council and state subsidies in facilitating, and restricting, the evolution of lesbian theatre. The book provides a detailed examination of representative texts, with a discussion of the notion of the lesbian character, and how it is portrayed. It also contains a detailed historical survey which lists information on productions." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Kate Griffin and Lisa A. Mulholland - Authors of : Lesbian Motherhood in Europe Paperback - 256 pages (May 1997) Continuum; ISBN: 0304333123 "Lesbian Parenting Books; Lesbian Studies/Culture; This text details the conditions for lesbian mothers in over 30 countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Each country profile includes a statistical overview and specific information on: legislation affecting lesbian mothers together with relevant court case examples; insemination, adoption and fostering; indicators for future change; and contacts for support groups and relevant organizations. The volume also collects stories of lesbian families throughout Europe." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Ellen Lewin - Author of : Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America Paperback - 232 pages (December 1996) Beacon Pr; ISBN: 080707943X "Lesbian Studies/Culture; This collection of eight essays gives a wonderful overview of how lesbians think, live, love, and deal with the world today. Editor Ellen Lewin has gathered pieces that range from an examination of lesbian subcultures in South Dakota in the 1930s to an analysis of the lesbian motherhood to a description of the nightlife of black lesbians in Detroit from 1940 to 1975. The essays--informed, well written and fascinating--give us a view of lesbian history and life unprecedented in scope. For the academic, or for the common reader interested in gay history, Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America is mandatory reading." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Deb Margolin and Lynda Hart - Author of : Of All the Nerve: Deb Margolin Solo Paperback - 224 pages (March 1999) Cassell Academic; ISBN: 0304703192 "Lesbian Studies/Culture; The "Critical Performance" series pairs a performance artist or playwright with a critical theorist in a dialogue aimed to elucidate both disciplines. This volume focuses on Deb Margolin, one of the three founding members of the American performance troupe Split Britches." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Mab Segrest and Adrienne Rich - Authors of : My Mama's Dead Squirrel : Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture Paperback - 237 pages (July 1990) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 0932379060 "Lesbian Studies/Culture; This collection brings together essays published over the past eight years by lesbian-feminist organizer and editor Segrest, who is the granddaughter of a KKK member and is a former English teacher in a Southern Baptist college." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Shelley Tremain - Editor of : Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture Paperback - 248 pages 1st edition (1996) Womens Pr; ISBN: 0889612188 "Lesbian Studies/Culture; Pushing the Limits is a path-breaking multi-media anthology of fiction, personal narrative, poetry, song, and artwork by disabled dykes. Taking cultural space for their language and art, Anne-Marie Alonzo, Sherree Clark, Laura Hershey, Audre Lorde, Mary Frances Platt, Sherry Shute, Shahnaz Stri, Frances Yip Hoi, and others, challenge exclusionary notions about who counts as dyke, and subvert pervasive stereotypes about disabled peoples. In doing so these writers and artists enrich queer communities, and contribute to the efforts of anti-ableist and other disability activists. Finally, an autonomous, self-contained collection of cultural work by disabled dykes, Pushing the Limits is compelling, provocative, and affirming." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Tamsin Wilton - Author of : Immortal, Invisible : Lesbians and the Moving Image Paperback - 235 pages (March 1995) Routledge; ISBN: 0415107253 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Lesbian Studies/Culture; "Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image" is one of the first collections to bring together leading film-makers, academics and activists to discuss films by, for and about lesbians and queer women. The contributors debate the practice of lesbian and queer film-making, from the queer cinema of Monika Treut to the work of lesbian film-makers. They explore the pleasures and problems of lesbian spectatorship, both in mainstream Hollywood films including "Aliens" and "Red Sonja", and in independent cinema from "She Must be Seeing Things" to "Salmonberries" and "Desert Hearts". The authors tackle tricky questions: can a film such as "Strictly Ballroom" be both pleasurably camp and heterosexist? Is it okay to drool over dyke icons like Sigourney Weaver and KD Lang? What makes a film lesbian, or queer, or even post-queer? What about showing sex on screen? And why do lesbian screen romances hardly ever have happy endings? "Immortal, Invisible" is illustrated with a selection of images from film and television texts." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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