No More Secrets: Violence in Lesbian Relationships
ISBN: 9780415929462 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Myths: violence is a male biological trait; when women fight, no one gets seriously hurt; lesbians don't abuse their spouses. The truth revealed in Janice Ristock's book is that lesbian relationships sometimes do turn violent.
Myths: violence is a male biological trait; when women fight, no one gets seriously hurt; lesbians don't abuse their spouses. The truth revealed in Ja...
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242,70 zł |
Lesbian Discourses : Images of a Community
ISBN: 9780415960953 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lesbian Discourses represents the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse. It looks at what changing images of community American and British lesbian authors have communicated since 1970, how this change can be traced in texts such as pamphlets, magazines and blogs, and why this change has taken place. At the heart of the book is a detailed linguistic analysis, which is embedded in a discussion of the relevant socio-political contexts and discourse practices, and supplemented by interview data. Lesbian Discourses represents the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse. It looks at what changing images of community American... |
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480,40 zł |
How to Make the World a Better Place for Gays & Lesbians
ISBN: 9780446670418 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HOW TO COUNTER AND COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
Now, as never before, gays and lesbians are marching together in growing numbers, raising their voices and making themselves heard in their escalating fight for civil rights. Yet despite increased national visibility and impressive gains, America's dynamic gay community continues to face bias in housing, employment, the military, and family relationships -- as well as a rise in gay and lesbian bashing and legally sanctioned discrimination. Here at last is a practical handbook to help you improve the lives of millions of American gays and lesbians and... HOW TO COUNTER AND COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA
Now, as never before, gays and lesbians are marching together in growing numbers, raising their voices and maki... |
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107,11 zł |
Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience
ISBN: 9780465039081 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by lesbians of different ages, races and religions--and compiled by one of the gay movement's best-known writers and activists--these original essays give vibrant voice to the diversity of the lesbian experience. Celebrating the many ways in which the lesbian experience is unique from all others, many of these pieces focus on specific lesbian concerns such as sexual practices, raising children and higher incidence of certain illnesses.Beyond pointing out these differences, the essays also provide a comprehensive view of the many phases of lesbian life by covering diverse topics like...
Written by lesbians of different ages, races and religions--and compiled by one of the gay movement's best-known writers and activists--these original...
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155,07 zł |
Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation
ISBN: 9780520206748 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein contributes an important chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a radical generation of feminists and its successors. Tracing the evolution of the lesbian movement from the bar scene to the growth of alternative families, Stein illustrates how a generation of women transformed the woman-centered ideals of feminism into a culture and a lifestyle. Sex and Sensibility relates the development of a...
In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein contributes an important...
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196,52 zł |
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780521448857 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire, and eroticism in a range of early modern discourses, including poetry, drama, visual arts, pornography, and medicine. Contrary to the silence ascribed to lesbianism in the Renaissance, Traub argues that the early modern period witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of representations of such desire. As a contribution to the history of sexuality and to feminist and queer theory, the book addresses current theoretical preoccupations through the lens of historical inquiry.
Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire, and eroticism in a range of early modern discourses, including poetry, drama,...
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231,44 zł |
Late Bloomers: Awakening to Lesbianism After Forty
ISBN: 9780595162277 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,57 zł |
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History
ISBN: 9780618056972 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark of lesbian history focuses on how certain late 19th-century and 20th-century women, whose lives can be described as lesbian, were in the forefront of the battle to secure the rights and privileges that large numbers of Americans enjoy today. 16 photos.
This landmark of lesbian history focuses on how certain late 19th-century and 20th-century women, whose lives can be described as lesbian, were in the...
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114,61 zł |
Surface Tension
ISBN: 9780684802213 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representing a fascinating spectrum of feelings and opinions about lesbianism, the friendships women share -- or fear -- and the rich diversity of personal choices women make today, this collection of brash and thoughtful essays, stories, and interviews offers
-- Dorothy Allison on what it means to be a lesbian -- Carla Trujillo on the impact of "sexual betrayal" by an ex-lover -- Elizabeth Wurtzel on the creative freedom experienced only by lesbians -- Susie Bright on the sexual dance between lesbians and straight women -- Guinevere Turner on the pain of reconciling one's... Representing a fascinating spectrum of feelings and opinions about lesbianism, the friendships women share -- or fear -- and the rich diversity of per...
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76,34 zł |
The Girls Next Door: into the Heart of Lesbian America
ISBN: 9780684839578 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What Tom Wolfe did for astronauts and Roger Angell did for baseball, journalists Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt do for lesbians in this landmark book.
Long misperceived as a separatist coven, a default option, or a sort of ladies' auxiliary to the gay men's movement, lesbian life has achieved a new visibility in the past few years. But for all the interest in who's out and who's not (yet), there's been surprisingly little understanding of the diversity and richness of lesbian experience. This funny, lively, and perceptive book will change all that. Drawing on more than a... What Tom Wolfe did for astronauts and Roger Angell did for baseball, journalists Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt do for lesbians in this lan...
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93,35 zł |
Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan
ISBN: 9780700717026 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lesbian Sexuality has remained largely ignored in Japan despite increasing exposure of disadvantaged minority groups, including gay men. This book is the first comprehensive academic exploration of contemporary lesbian sexuality in Japanese society. The author employs an interdisciplinary approach and this book will be of great value to those working or interested in the areas of Japanese, lesbian, queer and gender studies as well as Japanese history, anthropology and cultural studies.
Lesbian Sexuality has remained largely ignored in Japan despite increasing exposure of disadvantaged minority groups, including gay men. This book is ...
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733,31 zł |
Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective
ISBN: 9780745628387 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics.
The new politics repudiated lesbian feminist ideas and celebrated 'manhood' as a goal for gay men. Practices which construct this 'manhood', such as sadomasochism, cutting and piercing, female-to-male transsexual surgery, and which are promoted in queer politics, need to be... Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that di...
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85,12 zł |
Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies
ISBN: 9780761965114 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this benchmark work, lesbian and gay studies comes of age. Drawing from a rich team of global contributors and carefully structured to elucidate the core issues in the field, it constitutes an unparalleled resource for teaching, research and debate. The Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies is organized into 4 sections: History & Theory: This covers the roots of lesbian and gay studies, the institutionalization of the subject in the Academy, the 'naturalness' of heterosexuality, science and sexuality, the comparative sociology of homosexualities and the... With this benchmark work, lesbian and gay studies comes of age. Drawing from a rich team of global contributors and carefully structured to elucida... |
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758,60 zł |
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love
ISBN: 9780789004369 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families'definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family structures and environments. It is the first book to concentrate exclusively on lesbian step families rather than on lesbian mothering in general.In Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love, you ll explore in...
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families'definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parentin...
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657,46 zł |
Living "Difference"
ISBN: 9780789005373 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living "Difference" Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life examines the roles of lesbians in the home, in the workplace, and as parents. Discussing the advantages of female same-sex relationships, this book suggests that these partnerships are able to facilitate more egalitarian ideals for women than heterosexual relationships. This book will help academics, counselors, and women in same-sex relationships understand the positive aspects of lesbian parenting and the advantages lesbians experience in these households. Without focusing on lesbians as victims or neglecting their differences...
Living "Difference" Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life examines the roles of lesbians in the home, in the workplace, and as parents. Discuss...
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531,02 zł |
The Lesbian Polyamory Reader : Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex
ISBN: 9780789006608 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treats readers to personal accounts of the joys, struggles, and successes of living lesbian life with multiple intimate involvements. Also included are theoretical articles and analytical essays addressing the political and social significance of choosing a love-style other than monogamous coupling. How-to articles describe the various polyamorous
Treats readers to personal accounts of the joys, struggles, and successes of living lesbian life with multiple intimate involvements. Also included ar...
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682,74 zł |
Intimate Betrayal : Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships
ISBN: 9780789016638 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Help ease the secret suffering of lesbians in abusive relationships Why is woman-on-woman violence so often ignored or discounted? Intimate Betrayal: Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships uncovers the hidden problem of lesbians who hurt the women they love. This long-needed book brings together theory, practice, and research to suggest new and fruitful ways to understand, prevent, and treat this common problem. Intimate Betrayal provides new empirical research into the psychological and sociocultural causes of abuse. As several of the chapter authors demonstrate, neither traditional...
Help ease the secret suffering of lesbians in abusive relationships Why is woman-on-woman violence so often ignored or discounted? Intimate Betrayal:...
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182,02 zł |
Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward
ISBN: 9780789023339 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The untold history of lesbian life from those who have lived it
Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward illuminates the hopes, fears, issues, and concerns of gay women as they grow older. Based on interviews with 62 lesbians ranging in age from 55 to 95, this very special book provides a historical account of the shared experiences of the lesbian community that is so often invisible or ignored in contemporary society. The book gives voice to their thoughts and feelings on a wide range of issues, including coming out, identity and the meaning of life, the role of family... The untold history of lesbian life from those who have lived it
Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward illuminates the hopes, fe... |
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657,46 zł |
Lives of Lesbian Elders : Looking Back, Looking Forward
ISBN: 9780789023346 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on interviews with 62 lesbians ranging in age from 55 to 95 and residing in California, Oregon, and Washington State, this volume provides a historical account of the shared experiences of the lesbian community that is often invisible in modern society.
Based on interviews with 62 lesbians ranging in age from 55 to 95 and residing in California, Oregon, and Washington State, this volume provides a his...
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242,70 zł |
Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel
ISBN: 9780791463185 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique collection examines the experience of lesbians in Israel, providing insight into some of the institutions that have helped shape that experience. The book analyzes and interprets how culturally specific political, ideological, and social systems construct lesbian identities, experiences, and dilemmas, and it also explores how a specific society is seen, understood, and interpreted from a lesbian perspective. Written by scholars, professionals, and grassroots activists representing different sectors of the Israeli political spectrum, this book provides a broad perspective of the...
This unique collection examines the experience of lesbians in Israel, providing insight into some of the institutions that have helped shape that expe...
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135,81 zł |