Exploring identity development and gender orientation, Minneapolis-based psychotherapist Jensen presents first-hand information about the experiences and difficulties of women who discover and reveal their newfound lesbian sexuality later in life. She also provides a rare collection of extensive quotes from interviews of lesbians and bisexual women

Exploring identity development and gender orientation, Lesbian Epiphanies: Women Coming Out in Later Life contains firsthand information about the experiences and difficulties of women who discover and reveal their newfound lesbian sexuality in later life. Psychologists, social workers, counselors, and professors will find that Lesbian Epiphanies is the first book to extensively quote from interviews of lesbians and bisexuals who had entered into heterosexual marriages. From the analysis of these 24 interviews, the psychological, erotic, and social processes of women who come out as lesbians...