Classics in Lesbian Studies

by Rothblum; Esther D

• ISBN13: 9780789000149
• ISBN10: 0789000148
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Classics in Lesbian Studies takes a major step in giving the lesbian experience its own unique voice within scholarship and the larger world society. Thus, it is devoted exclusively to the lesbian experience and serves as a vehicle for the promotion of scholarship and commentary on lesbianism from an international perspective. Not only does it ensure that "classic" pieces are not forgotten by new generations of students and scholars, it also spurs further lesbian research, writing, theory, and scholarship. In Classics in Lesbian Studies, you are introduced to descriptive, theoretical, empirical, applied, and multicultural perspectives in the field of lesbian studies. Interdisciplinary, the book presents pieces from various academic areas in multiple formats, including personal accounts, poetry, editorials, debates, and commentaries. For your convenience, the chapters are organized primarily across four categories: identity, history and literature, physical and social sciences, and "back to lesbian politics." You will find the discussions of the following issues and subjects provocative and insightful: ways black women in the diaspora construct and name their sexual and romantic feelings for other women lesbian identity formation in a changing social environment how lesbians maneuver in the dominant culture and their own subculture lesbianism as a political movement the experiences of lesbian adolescents teaching lesbian studies lesbians and societal institutions, including the work place, the media, the political arena, the legal system, and religion using lesbian-feminist scholarship to reexamine women's lives in the past Students, scholars, lesbian feminists, and others interested in lesbian studies will find Classics in Lesbian Studies a vital examination of lesbianism since its grass roots. Not only does it consider the progress made since the initial days of fighting for liberation, it also explores a more distant, repressed past and anticipates future possibilities lying before us. This powerful, insightful collection is sure to become a classic as it grapples with virtually all aspects of lesbianism, from its inception as a political movement to its identity as a lifestyle choice to its implications of community.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What Are "Classics" in Lesbian Studies?	1	(8)
Esther D. Rothblum
Some Like Indians Endure	9	(2)
Paula Gunn Allen
INDENTITY	11	(38)
Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism: Two Idealtypical Expressions of Female Homosexuality in Black Communities of the Diaspora	11	(14)
Gloria Wekker, Phd
"Coming out" in the Age of Social Constructionism: Sexual Identity Formation Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women	25	(30)
Paula C. Rust
A Study of Lesbian Lifestyles in the Homosexual Micro-Culture and the Heterosexual Macro-Culture	55	(14)
Joyce C. Albro
Carol Tully
Sappho Was a Right-On Adolescent: Growing Up Lesbian	69	(18)
Margaret Schneider
Growing Older Female: Heterosexual and Homosexual	87	(10)
Mary Riege Laner
Lesbianism in Female and Coed Correctional Institutions	97	(12)
Alice M. Propper
Lesbian Women of Color: Triple Jeopardy	109	(40)
Beverly Greene
HISTORY AND LITERATURE	149	(60)
Who Hid Lesbian History?	149	(6)
Lillian Faderman
"Imagine My Surprise": Women's Relationships in Historical Perspective	155	(22)
Leila J. Rupp
Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English	177	(18)
Catharine R. Stimpson
Lesbian Ethics and Female Agency	195	(14)
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES	209	(64)
Toward a Laboratory of One's Own: Lesbians in Science	209	(8)
H. Patricia Hybes
National Lesbian Health Care Survey: Implications for Mental Health Care	217	(34)
Judith Bradford
Caitlin Ryan
Esther D. Rothblum
Negative Sexual Experiences with Men Among Heterosexual Women and Lesbians	251	(6)
JoAnn C. Brannock
Beata E. Chapman
Therapy for Lesbian?: The Case Against	257	(16)
Rachel Perkins
BACK TO POLITICS	273
Putting the Politics Back into Lesbianism	273>
Janice G. Raymond