Women-identified women /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palo Alto, California :
Mayfield Publishing Company,
1984.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Identity
- 1. Changing theories of lesbianism: challenging the stereotypes / Christine Browning
- 2. Developing a lesbian identity / Jeannine Gramick
- 3. The coming-out process: violence against lesbians / Ruth Baetz
- 4. Lesbian relationships: a struggle toward partner equality / Barbara Sang
- 5. The older lesbian: love relationships and friendship patterns / Sharon Raphael and Mina Robinson
- 6. Beloved women: the lesbian in American Indian culture / Paula Gunn Allen
- 7. Reclamation: a lesbian Indian story / Beth Brant
- 8. The Puerto Rican lesbian in the United States / Hida Hidalgo
- Section 2. Oppression
- 9. Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrenne Rich
- 10. Lesbians and the law: where sexism and heterosexism meet / Meredith Gould
- 11. Lesbianism and motherhood: implications for child custody / Ellen Lewin
- 12. Lesbian childbirth and woman-controlled conception / Deborah Goleman Wolf
- 13. Lesbians and contemporary health care systems: oppression and opportunity / Trudy Darty and Sandee Potter
- 14. Peril and promise: lesbians' workplace participation / Beth Schneider
- Section 3. Culture and community
- 15. From accommodation to rebellion: the politicization of lesbianism / Rose Weitz
- 16. Culture-making: lesbian classics in the year 2000 / Melanie Kayel/Kantrowitz
- 17. The black lesbian in American literature: an overview / Ann Allen Shockley
- 18. Without approval: the lesbian poetry tradition / Betty Steinshouer
- 19. Lesbians and women's music / Maida Tilchen.