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	All Books by Lilian Mohin - Editor of : An Intimacy of Equals : Lesbian Feminist Ethics Paperback - 157 pages (September 1996) Haworth (T); ISBN: 156023881X "Lesbian Studies/Theory; This work scrutinizes the way lesbians can, should, and more importantly, do interact with mainstream culture. It is about what lesbians gain, if anything, from their connections both within and against the mainstream. Academics, writers, and activists people like Anna Livia, Celia Kitzinger, Julia Penelope, Liz Whitelaw, and Sheila Shulman contribute essays on feminism and the Bible, the misuses of psychology, the meaning of gossip, the world of business, femininity, the movies, disabilities, community and sexuality." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Sally R. Munt - Author of : Heroic Desire Paperback - 200 pages (March 1998) New York University Press; ISBN: 0814756077 "Lesbian Studies/Theory; Drawing on literary and cultural theory to show how lesbian identities are ascribed and resisted, this book explores lesbian "space" in material terms (for example, the significance of places such as New York, Paris and London), and imaginatively (through a reading of lesbian fiction)." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Noreen O'Connor - Author of : Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities Paperback - 315 pages 0 edition (May 15, 1998) Columbia Univ Pr; ISBN: 023110023X "Lesbian Studies/Theory; Winner of a Friends of Pace Award Based on the author's clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, this reconsideration of lesbian lives and lesbian experiences offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologize or universalize all lesbianism, but instead argues for the development of a psychotherapeutic theory and practice open to the complexities and vicissitudes of individual life histories, relationships, and identities. Surveying a wide range of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbianism, O'Connor and Ryan critically address questions of sexual identity, sexual desire, and gender identity, of transference and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in relation to psychoanalytic training." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Shane Phelan - Author of : Getting Specific : Postmodern Lesbian Politics Paperback (December 1994) Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt); ISBN: 0816621101 "Lesbian Studies/Theory; Lesbian Identity and Politics - Power and Oppression" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Judith Roof, Larry P. Gross, Lillian Faderman - Editors of : A Lure of Knowledge : Lesbian Sexuality and Theory Paperback Reprint edition (March 1993) Columbia Univ Pr; ISBN: 0231074875 "Lesbian Studies/Theory; Roof demonstrates that lesbian sexuality pervades the arguments, subject matter and rhetoric of Western European and American literature, cinema, psychoanalysis and literary criticism. She examines the political context of these representations: how lesbian sexuality is used as a signifier, and why it appears when and where it does. Roof argues that attempts to depict lesbian sexuality spur anxieties about knowledge and identity, and that lesbian sexuality is thus represented as foreplay, simulated heterosexuality, erotic excess, joking in-authenticity or artful compromise." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Judith Roof - Author of : Come As You Are (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) Paperback - 248 pages 0 edition (May 15, 1996) Columbia Univ Pr; ISBN: 0231104375 "Lesbian Studies/Theory; Linking narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory, this text explores the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of the Western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are the necessary obstacles in a heroic plot of normal heterosexual development; heterosexuality is the 19th-century's classic case of perversion. The author builds on this to illustrate that a structural understanding of narrative enforces a heterosexual paradigm, a sense of meaning that provides psychological stability for the reader. The book looks at film, television and lesbian novels, exploring how ideas of narrative and sexuality inform, determine, and reproduce one another. It identifies the paradigmatic lesbian story, its unvarying repetition, and how it might be recast. Understanding identification as a narrative practice, and narrative as typically heterosexual and reproductive, the author shows how sexuality and narrative must be disentangled to alter oppressive social practices." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Paula C. Rust and Karla Jay - Editor of : Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics : Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution Hardcover (November 1995) New York University Press; ISBN: 081477444X "Lesbian Studies/Theory; Essays on the Political & Social Relationships between Bisexual & Lesbian Women" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Julie M. Thompson - Author of : Mommy Queerest : Contemporary Rhetorics of Lesbian Maternal Identity Hardcover - 192 pages (June 2002) Univ. of Massachusetts Press; ISBN: 1558493557 "Despite the sizable community of lesbian families in America, lesbian mothers and their children continue to face hostility and discrimination. This book explores the role that rhetoric plays in the formation of those negative attitudes and practices. Julie M. Thompson traces thirty years of public debate to examine how and to what extent the phrase "lesbian mother" has been viewed as an oxymoron. "Mommy Queerest" focuses on the historical and contemporary meanings of lesbian motherhood in three cultural domains: the mass media, the U.S. legal system, and recent scholarship in feminist psychology. Thompson argues that a rhetoric of ambivalence has pervaded the discourse on this subject. Looking closely at the period from 1970 to 2000, she examines articles published in mainstream newspapers such as the "New York Times," the "Washington Post," the "Chicago Tribune," and the "Los Angeles Times" and in periodicals such as "Time," "Newsweek," and "Parents." She also scrutinizes such alternate publications as "Gay Community News," "Lesbian Connection," and "Lavender Woman." Whereas the mainstream press has tended to characterize lesbian mothers either as "unreal" or as an imminent threat to the family, the lesbian press has portrayed them alternately as the vanguard of radical feminism or as the ultimate betrayal of the lesbian nation...click through for more at Amazon" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Tamsin Wilton - Author of : Lesbian Studies : Setting an Agenda Paperback - 234 pages (August 1995) Routledge; ISBN: 0415086566 "Lesbian Studies/Theory; Neither women's studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical political base for lesbian scholarship. Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda aims to promote lesbian studies as an academic and political approach to both gender and the erotic and to clarify the damaging influence of heterosexism across a range of disciplines." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A. H. McNaron - Authors of : The New Lesbian Studies : Into the Twenty-First Century Paperback 2 edition (October 1996) Feminist Pr; ISBN: 1558611363 "Lesbian Studies/Theory; The New Lesbian Studies includes 31 new essays representing the best in scholarship and theory in the study of lesbianism from both inside and outside the U.S. The text has sections on incorporating lesbian studies into academia and student services; understanding the origins of lesbian studies; exploring the questions proposed by lesbian studies; and offering us new voices, personal testimony, and multicultural perspectives. The collection is a necessary addition to lesbian and queer studies--an emerging genre in social, theoretical, and literary studies." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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